The Case of Miss Elliott by Baroness Emma Orczy ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

The Case of Miss Elliott by Baroness Emma Orczy audiobook.

Genre: mystery

In Edwardian London, crimes that stump Scotland Yard become tea-room talk in an ABC shop off the Strand. There, a mild, unassuming figure known only as the Old Man in the Corner sits with a cup of tea, a length of string, and a talent for seeing what everyone else misses. When a sharp young journalist, often identified as Polly Burton, brings him fresh newspaper accounts and courtroom gossip, he listens, asks a few disarming questions, and then patiently reconstructs the truth from motive, timing, and the smallest contradictions. The Case of Miss Elliott gathers twelve of Baroness Emma Orczy's early detective tales, each built around a seemingly impossible puzzle: a death in a quiet Maida Vale street that raises the question of murder or suicide, a prized racehorse targeted by an insidious plot, stolen jewels in a high-society house full of guests, baffling disappearances, and scandals that ripple through drawing rooms and docks alike. As Polly tests his conclusions and bristles at his certainty, the Old Man spins elegant solutions that expose greed, desperation, and the fragile masks of respectability - all without leaving his chair.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:30:37) Chapter 02

(01:06:45) Chapter 03

(01:37:40) Chapter 04

(02:10:36) Chapter 05

(02:44:31) Chapter 06

(03:15:31) Chapter 07

(03:52:28) Chapter 08

(04:21:42) Chapter 09

(04:53:06) Chapter 10

(05:23:31) Chapter 11

(05:51:24) Chapter 12

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