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R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943) was a British author of detective stories. A pioneer of the inverted detective story, in which the reader knows from the start who committed the crime, Freeman is best known as the creator of the "medical jurispractitioner" Dr. John Thorndyke. First introduced in The Red Thumb Mark (1907), the brilliant forensic investigator went on to star in dozens of novels and short stories over the next decades.

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DR. THORNDYKE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 21 Novels & 40 Short Stories (Illustrated): The Red Thumb Mark, The Eye of Osiris, A Silent Witness, The ... Puzzle Lock, The Magic Casket and many more 23 Mar, 2016

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Dr. John Thorndyke is a medical jurispractitioner, originally a medical doctor, he turned to the bar and became one of the first, in modern parlance, forensic scientists. His solutions are 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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Meet Dr. Thorndyke
Novels
The Red Thumb Mark
The Eye of Osiris
The Mystery of 31 New Inn
A Silent Witness
Helen Vardon's Confession
The Cat's Eye
The Mystery of Angelina Frood
The Shadow of the Wolf
The D'Arblay Mystery
A Certain Dr. Thorndyke
As a Thief in the Night
Mr. Pottermack's Oversight
Pontifex, Son and Thorndyke
When Rogues Fall Out
Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes
For the Defence: Dr. Thorndyke
The Penrose Mystery
Felo De Se?
The Stoneware Monkey
Mr. Polton Explains
The Jacob Street Mystery
Short Stories
Percival Bland's Proxy
The Missing Mortgagee
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
The Case of the White Footprints
The Blue Scarab
The New Jersey Sphinx
The Touchstone
A Fisher of Men
The Stolen Ingots
The Funeral Pyre
The Puzzle Lock
The Green Check Jacket
The Seal of Nebuchadnezzar
Phyllis Annesley's Peril
A Sower of Pestilence
Rex v. Burnaby
A Mystery of the Sand-Hills
The Apparition of Burling Court
The Mysterious Visitor
The Magic Casket
The Contents of a Mare's Nest
The Stalking Horse
The Naturalist at Law
Mr. Ponting's Alibi
Pandora's Box
The Trail of Behemoth
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The Collected Works of R. Austin Freeman (Illustrated Edition): 27 Novels & 60+ Short Stories: The Red Thumb Mark, The Puzzle Lock, A Silent Witness… 7 Aug, 2017

by R. Austin Freeman, Fred Pegram, Amédée Forestier

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Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He introduced the inverted detective story; a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's attempt to solve the mystery.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Short Biography
The Art of the Detective Story
Dr. Thorndyke Series
Meet Dr. Thorndyke
Novels
The Red Thumb Mark
The Eye of Osiris
The Mystery of 31 New Inn
A Silent Witness
Helen Vardon's Confession
The Cat's Eye
The Mystery of Angelina Frood
The Shadow of the Wolf
The D'Arblay Mystery
A Certain Dr. Thorndyke
As a Thief in the Night
Mr. Pottermack's Oversight
Pontifex, Son and Thorndyke
When Rogues Fall Out
Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes
For the Defence: Dr. Thorndyke
The Penrose Mystery
Felo De Se?
The Stoneware Monkey
Mr. Polton Explains
The Jacob Street Mystery
Short Story Collections
Percival Bland's Proxy
The Missing Mortgagee
Dr. Thorndyke's Cases
The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke
Dr. Thorndyke's Casebook
The Puzzle Lock
The Magic Casket
Other Novels:
The Golden Pool
The Unwilling Adventurer
The Uttermost Farthing
The Exploits of Danby Croker
The Surprising Experiences of Mr. huttlebury Cobb
Flighty Phyllis
Other Short Stories
By the Black Deep
The Adventures of Romney Pringle
The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle
From a Surgeon's Diary
The Great Portrait Mystery and Other Stories

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The Mystery of 31 New Inn 17 May, 2012

by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

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The Best Dr. Thorndyke Detective Stories (Dover Mystery Classics) 28 Apr, 2017

by R. Austin Freeman, E. F. Bleiler

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This collection reprints eight of Freeman's best Dr. Thorndyke stories. Every device used in these stories was previously tested by the author. As a special feature in this collection, "31 New Inn," the story that established the character of Dr. Thorndyke, is reprinted for the first time since its original publication. Contents include "The Case of Oscar Brodski," "A Case of Premeditation," "The Echo of a Mutiny," "The Mandarin's Pear," "The Blue Sequin," "The Moabite Cipher," "The Aluminum Dagger," and "31 New Inn."

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The Blue Scarab 9 Mar, 2020

by R. Austin Freeman

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• ‘Perfect stories of scientific deduction’ THE NEW YORK TIMES.

• ‘The Ace of Detectives’ THE TIMES.

• Includes all illustrations from the original edition, critical to the plot.

Detective and forensic scientist Dr John Thorndyke, together with his lab-bound sidekick, Nathaniel Polton, investigate a series of crimes – equipped with his signature green travelling research case packed with test tubes, spirit lamp and dwarf microscope. Thorndyke uses his knowledge of medical conditions, hieroglyphs, dust particles, natural history and the specific gravity of metal to solve seven ingenious cases: The Blue Scarab; The Case of the White Foot-Prints; The New Jersey Sphinx; The Touchstone; A Fisher of Men; The Stolen Ingots and The Funeral Pyre.
THE BLUE SCARAB is the third of five short story collections featuring R. Austin Freeman’s greatest literary creation, the handsome and brilliant Dr John Evelyn Thorndyke, and published during the author’s lifetime.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard Austin Freeman was born in London in 1862. The youngest of five children and from a humble background, he first tried his hand as an apothecary and then studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital. Unable to afford to buy a practice he joined the Colonial Service and served in Africa. He was forced to return to England seven years later after contracting blackwater fever and began writing fiction in 1902. There followed a long series of DR THORNDYKE crime books (21 novels and 40 short stories), including some of the first ‘inverted’ detective stories, where the identity of the criminal is revealed at the outset and the story then describes the detective’s attempt to solve the mystery. A member of the DETECTION CLUB, Freeman’s contemporaries held him in high esteem as a pioneering detective writer. Conan Doyle may have created the first great detective, but Freeman was arguably the father of the modern detective story. He died in 1943.

PRAISE FOR R. AUSTIN FREEMAN

‘Austin Freeman is a wonderful performer… he has no equal in his genre’ RAYMOND CHANDLER
‘Freeman developed the detective story into a carefully written and constructed genre that educated people could read with pleasure’ DOROTHY L. SAYERS, THE SUNDAY TIMES
‘The Thorndyke books rank among the very best of modern detective fiction’ S.S. VAN DINE
‘The first major scientific detective of the twentieth century… [Freeman’s] obsessive devotion to accurate detail set him head and shoulders above American contemporaries’ MARTIN EDWARDS, ‘THE STORY OF CLASSIC CRIME IN 100 BOOKS’

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Mr. Pottermack's Oversight 1 Mar, 2019

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In this novel, the sympathetic, engaging and enterprising Mr. Pottermack commits the perfect crime, only to discover that a perfect crime is the last thing in the world he wants. Enter the legendary Dr John Thorndyke, physician and lawyer, the dean of scientific detection, who seems to know far too much about what Mr. Pottermack did on a night when there was nobody around to see him.

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The Vanishing Man A Detective Romance 18 Dec, 2012

by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

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John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 24 Mar, 2011

by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

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The Red Thumb Mark 17 May, 2012

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The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta 17 May, 2012

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THE RED THUMB MARK, THE EYE OF OSIRIS & THE MYSTERY OF 31 NEW INN: (3 British Mystery Classics in One Volume) Dr. Thorndyke Series – The Greatest Forensic Science Mysteries 23 Mar, 2016

by R. Austin Freeman

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Dr. John Thorndyke is a fictional detective in a series of novels. He is a medical jurispractitioner - originally a medical doctor, he turned to the bar and became one of the first, in modern parlance, forensic scientists. 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. It is this method which gave rise to one of Freeman's most ingenious inventions, the inverted detective story, where the criminal act is described first and the interest lies in Thorndyke's subsequent unraveling of it.
Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology.
Table of Contents:
The Red Thumb Mark
The Eye of Osiris (The Vanishing Man)
The Mystery of 31 New Inn

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A Silent Witness 22 Nov, 2017

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On a wet and windy silent night in the sleeping city of London, the body of a man is found sprawled across Millfield Lane. So begins an ill wind and the puzzle of an intriguing stranger in this enchanting Dr Thorndyke mystery.

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