The Dr. Thorndyke Series: 21 Novels and Short Stories by R. Austin Freeman (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains seven novels and fourteen short stories featuring British sleuth Dr. John Thorndyke. Thorndkye was created by R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943) a prolific British detective writer who prospered during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" during the 1920s and 1930s.

Dr. Thorndyke was a prototypical forensic scientist who used minute bits of evidence to solve his cases. His solutions were based on his method of collecting all possible data (including dust and pond weed) and making inferences from them before looking at any of the protagonists and motives in the crimes. A large proportion of the Dr Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology. A large proportion of the Dr Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge.

This ebook includes and active table of contents for easy navigation.

Novels:
The Red Thumb Mark
The Eye of Osiris
The Mystery of 31 New Inn
A Silent Witness
Helen Vardon’s Confessions
When Rogues Fall Out
The Jacob Street Mystery

Short Stories:
The Case of the White Footprints
The Man with the Nailed Shoes
The Stranger's Latchkey
The Anthropologist at Large
The Blue Sequin
The Moabite Cipher
The Mandarin's Pearl
The Aluminium Dagger
A Message from the Deep Sea
The Case of Oscar Brodski
A Case of Premeditation
The Echo of A Mutiny
A Wastrel's Romance
The Old Lag

This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.