Recent Reads: The Case of Miss Elliott: The Teahouse Detective by Baroness Orczy

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.

Baroness Orczy also wrote the Scarlet Pimpernel, which is much better known both as a book, and as a tv series by the BBC, with Richard E Grant in!  It's set in the time of the French Revolution, and the Scarlet Pimpernel is a swashbuckling aristocrat who is always popping over to France to save French royalists!

The Case of Miss Elliott: Teahouse Detective is to be published on 13th August 2019,  and is available to buy on Amazon  and on Waterstones.  I've found a link to where you can search for local bookshops, including independent!

I was given this book for free in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Pushkin Press (the publishers) for this book.

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