A plethora of clues baffle the reader in this Conan Doyle-style mystery of a medical lawyer intrigued by a young woman's odd marriage and disappearance. Freeman's other works include The Singing Bone, The Red Thumb Mark, and The Fye of Osiris.
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'Bright, ingenious and amusing' -- The Times Literary Supplement.
'This man Austin Freeman is a wonderful performer -- Raymond Chandler --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
'This man Austin Freeman is a wonderful performer -- Raymond Chandler --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Richard Austin Freeman enjoyed a prolific career that saw him gain qualification as pharmacist and surgeon, pull off a diplomatic coup along the Gold Coast, work for Holloway Prison and become a formidable man of fiction. For the first twenty-five years of his writing career, Freeman was to dominate and remain unrivalled in the world of detective fiction, introducing the well-loved and highly memorable Dr Thorndyke. The continued success of this character has affirmed Richard Austin Freeman's place amongst the finest of crime writers.
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