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Baroness Orczy

The Baroness Emmuska Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara Orczy (1865-1947) created many memorable characters during her long and productive career as a writer. They include the celebrated Lady Molly of Scotland Yard; Monsieur Fernand, a secret agent of the Napoleonic Era; Patrick Mulligan, the grotesque master detective known as "Skin o’ My Tooth"; the swashbuckling Leathermask; and others. But she is best known as the creator of her two celebrated contributions to the historical-adventure and the detective story: Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and the nameless crime-solver known simply as "the Old Man in the Corner," respectively. The adventures of this anonymous sleuth, who solved all his cases without leaving his comfortable chair in the corner of his local tea shop, filled three volumes - The Case of Miss Elliott (1905), The Old Man in the Corner (1909) and Unraveled Knots (1925). The Old Man even starred in a series of silent British short films in the 1920s.