The Old Man in the Corner: The Robbery in Phillimore Terrace

The Old Man in the Corner: The Robbery in Phillimore Terrace by Baroness Orczy

Every day, young reporter Polly Burton eats lunch at the same London teashop, and every day a strange old man sits in the corner tying knots in a piece of string. One afternoon, he leans across the table to talk about the robbery that has all of London puzzled. Two houses, two safes, and a bag of diamonds that vanished twice in one night. The police caught a scruffy tramp but never found the jewels. The old man has never been to the scene of the crime, yet he says he knows exactly what happened.

A diamond mystery solved from a teashop table, retold for readers aged 8–12 and illustrated in crayon and pencil.