Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Old Man in the Corner. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Baroness Orczy, which is now, at last, again available to you.
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He waited in the dense fog-until he was tired, until he seriously thought of depositing all the luggage in the lost property office, and of looking out for another fare-waited until at last, at a quarter before nine, whom should he see walking hurriedly towards his cab but the gentleman in the fur coat and cap, who got in quickly and told the driver to take him at once to the Hotel Cecil.
...With regard to this alleged murder of one William Kershaw, on Wednesday, December the 10th, between 6.15 and 8.45 p.m., your Honour, I now propose to call two witnesses, who saw this same William Kershaw alive on Tuesday afternoon, December the 16th, that is to say, six days after the supposed murder.
...Which we can easily prove, came in Sir Arthur Inglewoods drawly tones, as he handed up a packet to his Honour; here are a number of letters written by my client since he has landed in this country, and some of which were written under my very eyes.
...Wait a minute, he interrupted, while knot number two appeared upon the scene, it was proved that six days after the murder, William Kershaw was alive, and visited the Torriani Hotel, where already he was known, and where he conveniently left a pocket-book behind, so that there should be no mistake as to his identity; but it was never questioned where Mr.
...Now, on that particular night, or rather early morning, of January 15th, Constable D 21, having turned into the mews from Phillimore Terrace, stood for a moment at the angle formed by the long vertical artery of the mews and the short horizontal one which, as I observed before, looks on to the back gardens of the Terrace houses, and ends in a cul-de-sac.
