Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My Teaser:
“He looked so timid and nervous as he fidgeted incessantly with a piece of string; his long, lean, and trembling fingers tying and untying it into knots of wonderful and complicated proportions.”
~ “The Old Man in the Corner” by Baroness Orczy
A Paperback Life 
Ooh, another fan of Orczy! I’ve never heard of her straight mystery novels, but I’m obsessed with The Scarlet Pimpernel. She was a fantastic writer and character-creator; I bet this one’s just as worth reading!
My teaser this week is from The Shadow of the Wind. Check it out!
I have only read Orczy’s mysteries but not her most famous work The Scarlet Pimpernel. Swashbucklers are not really my style. I have read about half a dozen of them and have loved only one, Under the Red Robe, all the others have been a bust. But I would like to try out The Scarlet Pimpernel because I like Orczy’s style.
I read The Shadow of the Wind last year and liked it though I did find some parts rather dull.
Very interesting teaser!
http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2012/05/teaser-tuesday_15.html
Thanks! 🙂
Oh, this one sounds like an intriguing story…thanks for sharing. Here’s MY TUESDAY MEMES POST
You’re welcome! 🙂
Yes as Sandra said the title alone is a teaser. Sounds great.
Thanks! I too think the title is intriguing.
The book’s title alone is a teaser! I love the excerpt you chose too. Sounds like an interesting character.
My Teaser is here Sandy’s Teaser, along with a related movie trailer.
Oh yes doesn’t The Old Man in the Corner sound intriguing? The said old man (his name isn’t revealed till the very end) is an interesting character, a man totally obsessed with unsolved crimes.