The Old Man in the Corner

Baroness Orczy isn't only known for the famous adventure novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. She also gave life to one of the most nonconformist and passive detectives found in literature. The Old Man in the Corner isn't an average Sherlock Holmes; he is a nameless protagonist who solves crimes while sitting in the corner of a London tea shop as he converses with a journalist. He doesn't trust the English police and their ways to solving a crime. Instead, he relies on logic and human behavioral patterns to identify the true culprit.