Skin o' My Tooth

Skin o' My Tooth

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author = Baroness Orczy
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Skin O' My tooth, aka Patrick Mulligan, was created by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (author of the Scarlet Pimpernel series), and appeared in several stories which were collected in Skin o' My Tooth. His Memoirs, By His Confidential Clerk (1928).

Mulligan is an ugly, portly, but particularly sharp Irish lawyer who goes to great lengths (even unscrupulous ones) to get his clients off. Usually this involves him solving the crimes himself. The nickname comes from one client who described Mulligan freeing him "by the skin o' my tooth."

tories

* The murder in Saltashe Woods
* The case of the Polish prince
* The case of Major Gibson
* The Duffield peerage case
* The case of Mrs. Norris


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