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Ladataan... The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway [Short Story]Tekijä: Emmuska Orczy
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Orczy is very much a writer of her time (this book is dated about 1909), and big on the melodrama. So when one character is sitting in a coffee shop and the next minute the Old Man is regaling her with the mystery - well, you have to just go with it.
From the story - a bit of commentary on the underground:
The female character is a journalist, and Orczy has another book with a female detective who works with the police - so in that you do have to see Orczy as modern, and noteworthy. But as the wikipedia page on the Old Man says these are "sensational" stories, meant to jump in and get you into the action and not really big on character or backstory. ( )