My review: ????
The Case of Miss Elliott: The Teahouse Detective by Baroness Orczy is from the time of Sherlock Holmes, so very early in the detective genre.
This is a book of 12 short stories, each of them a murder mystery, with the person who is solving the case someone who finds out the answer for the case. The solver is a man, who is described as being the man in the corner throughout the book, and he is explaining the cases to a female journalist in a tea room. He isn’t a policeman, or a private investigator hired for the case, but simply a man who is interested.
Each case has gone to court, and typically the wrong outcome has happened, but the man in the corner believes he knows the truth, and each story ends with him knowing the truth, and justice not having been carried out because he doesn’t have proof that what he supposes really happened.
I did enjoy these stories, even if I did find the man in the corner a bit odd, but I enjoyed the mysteries, the settings, and the different way things came about.
