A compelling collection of Dr Thorndyke mysteries is presented here in a bumper crop of Richard Austin Freeman's fiction. Opening with The Case of the White Footprints, revealing the secrets of The Blue Scarab and teasing all that read The Stolen Ingots, Freeman introduces some extraordinary detective stories to bamboozle the most able of minds. Once you pick this book up, you won't be able to put it down.
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'This man Austin Freeman is a wonderful performer' -- Raymond Chandler
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R. Austin Freeman is the doyen of the scientific division of detective writing, is best known for his character Dr John Thorndyke. A close and careful investigator and the outstanding medical authority in the field of detective fiction, R. Austin Freeman not only tested the wits of the reader but also inspired many modern detective forensic methods. Much of his long life was spent as a physician and surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He also held posts in West Africa and later was a medical officer at Holloway Prison. The most famous of the Edwardian detective writers, he rescued the detective story from "thrillerdom" and made it acceptable to a more discerning class of reader.
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I cannot get enough of R. Austin Freeman's books. Being aScientist and Physician, he wrote books that informed you as well as entertained you. This book is comprised of seven of Dr. Thorndyke's cases: The Case of The White Footprints; The Blue Scarab; The New Jersey Sphinx; The Touchtone; A Fisher of Men; The Stolen Ingots (my personal favorite-a real twister) and The Funeral Pyre. Dr. Thorndyke is the perfect mystery solver. Someone you wish you could know.
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