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The Case of Miss Elliott
Book by Emma Orczy
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