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The Case of Miss Elliott

Book by Emma Orczy

Field	Value
name	The Case of Miss Elliott
image	Thecaseofmisselliott1905.jpg
caption	First edition cover
author	Baroness Orczy
country	UK
language	English
published	1905 T. Fisher Unwin
preceded_by	The Old Man in the Corner
followed_by	Unravelled Knots

The Case of Miss Elliott was Baroness Orczy's first collection of detective stories. It appeared in 1905 and featured the first of her detective characters, The Old Man in the Corner, who solves mysteries without leaving his chair.

This is one of three books of short stories featuring Orczy's armchair detective, and although the first published, it is second chronologically. The stories follow those in The Old Man in the Corner and precede those in Unravelled Knots.

The Old Man in the Corner stories first appeared in 1901 in The Royal Magazine, with the author receiving the large sum of £60. The stories were immediately popular, and the public clamoured for more. The stories in this collection were published in The Royal Magazine in 1904 and 1905. They include:

The Case of Miss Elliott
The Hocussing of Cigarette
The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace
Who Stole the Black Diamonds?
The Murder of Miss Pebmarsh
The Lisson Grove Mystery
The Tremarn Case
The Fate of the Artemis
The Disappearance of Count Collini
The Ayrsham Mystery
The Affair at the Novelty Theatre
The Tragedy of Barnsdale Manor

Plot

Despite his vanity about his own talents, the Old Man in the Corner is an undistinguished armchair detective. A balding, watery-eyed, mild-mannered little man in violently checked tweed, he haunts a corner of the ABC Teashop on the corner of Norfolk Street and the Strand.

His listener and protégé is an attractive young journalist (named some editions of the previous volume as Polly Burton), who brings him details of obscure crimes baffling the police, which he helps her to solve. She is fascinated by the unlikely unravellings she hears, but despite her sarcasm and pride in her own investigative talents, she remains the learner, impressed in spite of herself.

Although The Old Man does not hide his upper class attitudes, he sometimes feels sympathy for the criminals.

The Old Man's cases include a wide range of sensational and complex detective puzzles:

murder ("The Tremarn Case"),
blackmail ("The Murder of Miss Pebmarsh"),
perfect alibis ("The Case of Miss Elliott"),
and thefts ("The Affair at the Novelty Theatre").

References

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