In this episode: Journalist Polly seeks help from an enigmatic old customer in a London teahouse over her friend's killing.

Starring: Bernard Hepton.

The Teahouse Detective is fictional character, created by Baroness Emma Orczy(1865-1947). It is first published In 1909 as (The Old Man in the Corner).

In Baroness Orczy's detective stories, the Old Man in the Corner is a distinctive and eccentric character who solves crimes from a corner table in a tea shop.
The old man rarely moves from his corner seat, preferring to remain seated and solve mysteries through pure intellectual deduction.
The narrator of these stories, a young female journalist named Polly Burton, listens to his detailed explanations of complex criminal cases, which he solves through careful reasoning and meticulous analysis of newspaper reports and public information.
Check the playlists for Agatha Christie BBC Radio Mystery Drama (Miss Marple & Poirot).

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