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.

Mulligan is represented as an ugly, portly, but particularly sharp Irish lawyer who goes to great lengths (even unscrupulous ones) to get his clients off.

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.The following stories first appeared in The Windsor Magazine (June - November) 1903

This article about a collection of mystery short stories published in the 1920s is a stub.