title: The Old Man in the Corner: Twelve Mysteries
author: Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
description: Ensconced in a cozy corner of a London teashop, a nameless, shabbily dressed old man toys ceaselessly with a bit of string as he unravels the baffling crimes of the day for an admiring lady journalist. Relying solely on his vast Holmesian powers of deduction, the "strange looking" sleuth never deigns to visit the scene of the crime, question a suspect, or examine clues. Nor does he have much faith in conventional police methods and crime solving capabilities. "There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation."
  The 12 mysteries in this book are captivating. Which include; The Fenchurch Street Mystery, The mysterious death on the underground railway, The mysterious death in percy street, The Dublin mystery, The Glasgow mystery, The Liverpool mystery, The case of Miss Elliott, The Lisson Grove Mystery, The Tragedy in Dartmoor terrace, The  Tremarn case, The murder of Miss Pebmarch and The affair at the Novelty Theatre.
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  # THE YORK MYSTERY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Baroness Orczy
  
  
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  CHAPTER VII. THE YORK MYSTERY
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. THE CAPITAL CHARGE
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. A BROKEN-HEARTED WOMAN
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### CHAPTER VII. THE YORK MYSTERY
  
  
  
  
  
  THE man in the corner looked quite cheerful that morning; he had had
  
  
  two glasses of milk and had even gone to the extravagance of an extra
  
  
  cheese-cake. Polly knew that he was itching to talk police and murders,
  
  
  for he east furtive glances at her from time to time, produced a bit of
  
  
  string, tied and untied it into scores of complicated knots, and
  
  
  finally, bringing out his pocket-book, he placed two or three
  
  
  photographs before her.
  
  
    
  "Do you know who that is?" he asked, pointing to one of these.
  
  
    
  The girl looked at the face on the picture. It was that of a woman,
  
  
  not exactly pretty, but very gentle and childlike, with a strange
  
  
  pathetic look in