Skin o' My Tooth

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).

This article is about the fictional character and series. For the saying, see skin of my teeth.

Skin O' My Tooth
First edition cover
AuthorBaroness Orczy
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Published1928

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."

fat and rosy and comfortable as an Irish pig, with a face as stodgy as a boiled currant dumpling. His hair, I believe, would be red if he gave it a chance at all, but he wears it cropped so close to his bulky head that he looks bald in some lights.

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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