Skin O' My tooth, aka Patrick Mulligan, was created by

Baroness Emmuska Orczy Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci) (; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), usually known as Baroness Orczy (the name under which she was published) or to her family and friends as Em ...

(author of

the Scarlet Pimpernel ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title (co-authored with Montague Barstow) enjoyed a long run in London, having ...

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."

Stories

The following stories first appeared in ''The Windsor Magazine'' (June - November) 1903 * 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 * The Murton-Braby Murder

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