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Country United Kingdom Publication date 1925 Originally published 1925 Page count 303 Publisher Hutchinson | 3.7/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 303 Genre Detective fiction Preceded by The Case of Miss Elliott | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Similar Emma Orczy books, Detective fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unravelled Knots, by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, contains thirteen short stories about the Old Man in the Corner, Orzy's armchair detective who solves crimes for his own entertainment. This is the last of three books of short stories featuring the detective and follows those in The Old Man in the Corner and The Case of Miss Elliott.
In these first person narratives, a woman, presumedly the Polly Burton of The Old Man in the Corner, visits a tea-house after an absence of twenty years to find the Man in the Corner just as she had last seen him years before, fidgeting with his string and with mysteries to unravel. She is fascinated by the unlikely unravelings she hears, but despite her sarcasm and pride in her own investigative talents she remains the learner, impressed in spite of herself.
Seven of these stories originally appeared in the London Magazine (1923–1924) and five in Hutchinson's Magazine (1924–1925).