Cover of Unravelled Knots

Unravelled Knots

by Baroness Orczy

First published
1925
Reading level
Plain English
Price
Free

About the book

"Unravelled Knots by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy" is a collection of short stories published in 1923-1925. This final installment features the Old Man in the Corner, an armchair detective who solves mysteries purely for entertainment. When a woman returns to a London tea-house after twenty years, she finds him unchanged, still fidgeting with string while unraveling baffling crimes. Through thirteen first-person narratives, she listens to his brilliant deductions, impressed despite her skepticism and pride in her own investigative skills.

  • Detective and mystery stories, English
  • Short stories, English
  • English fiction

Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #68237. Unravelled Knots on Wikipedia.

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