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  • British Mysteries Collection (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. 27 Novels in One Volume, featuring the Complete Dr. Thorndyke Series, A Savant's Vendetta, The Exploits of Danby Croker, The Golden Pool, The Unwilling Adventurer, and More

    by R. Austin Freeman, Rowan Oakbourne ...
    British Mysteries Collection gathers R. Austin Freeman's rigorously constructed tales of crime, detection, and legal inference, most famously associated with the medico-legal investigator Dr. John Thorndyke. Written in a lucid, methodical prose style, these stories privilege evidence over sensation: fingerprints, dust, poisons, anatomy, and the minutiae of place become the grammar of truth. In the ... Read more

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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…

    by R. Austin Freeman ...
    The Collected Works of R. Austin Freeman (Illustrated Edition) offers a comprehensive look at the pioneering contributions of one of the foremost figures in the detective genre. This collection features Freeman's groundbreaking short stories and novels, notably introducing his iconic detective, Dr. John Thorndyke, a forerunner of the forensic crime solver. Freeman's literary style is marked by ... Read more

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  • THE RED THUMB MARK, THE EYE OF OSIRIS & THE MYSTERY OF 31 NEW INN (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. (3 British Mystery Classics in One Volume) Dr. Thorndyke Series – The Greatest Forensic Science Mysteries

    by R. Austin Freeman, Rowan Oakbourne ...
    Gathering three foundational Dr. Thorndyke mysteries—The Red Thumb Mark, The Eye of Osiris, and The Mystery of 31 New Inn—this volume displays R. Austin Freeman's decisive contribution to the scientific detective story. Its plots turn on fingerprints, forensic inference, medical jurisprudence, and the patient reconstruction of material evidence. Written in lucid Edwardian prose, the narratives ... Read more

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  • The Penrose Mystery

    by R. Austin Freeman ...
    Penrose is an eccentric old man in possession of some dazzling gems, which he won't insure. When Dr Thorndyke is alerted to a burglary at his house, a scrap of paper is found with the word 'lobster' on it along with two Latin words. Meanwhile, Penrose has fled in panic after a car accident. The police are clearly mystified, but Thorndyke in his indelible style is on track; hunting down a fugitive, ... Read more

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  • The Singing Bone: aka The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke

    by R Austin Freeman ...
    Dr. Richard Austin Freeman MRCS LSA was born on the 11th April 1862 in Soho, London, the youngest of five children.At 18 he entered, and later qualified from, the Middlesex Hospital with the honours MRCS and LSA. He was now 24 and spent a further year as a house physician at the hospital before marrying his childhood sweetheart the following year.He joined the Colonial Service is 1897 and took ... Read more

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  • Complete Dr. John Thorndyke Mystery Detective Forensic Investigator Anthologies

    by Austin Freeman ...
    British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke.His first stories were written in collaboration with Dr. John James Pitcairn [1860–1936], medical officer at Holloway Prison and published under the nom de plume "Clifford Ashdown". His first Thorndyke story, The Red Thumb Mark, was published in 1907 and shortly afterwards he pioneered the ... Read more

    $8.23 CAD

  • John Thorndyke's Cases

    by R. Austin Freeman ...
    This volume collects seven of Thorndyke's most puzzling stories, including "The Man with the Nailed Shoes," "The Moabite Cipher," "A Message from the Deep Sea," and many more. ... Read more

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  • The Jacob Street Mystery

    by R. Austin Freeman ...
    A peaceful, pleasant afternoon in the woodland scene of Linton Green is disturbed when a brutal murder takes place. But thanks to an unseen witness, the killer may be caught, and the witness turns out to be a blessing in disguise. This is the story of Thomas Pedley, a gifted artist who paints what he sees from memory. ... Read more

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  • R. AUSTIN FREEMAN Ultimate Collection: 27 Novels & 60+ Short Stories, including Dr. Thorndyke Series, Romney Pringle Adventures and Many More British Mysteries (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Dr. Thorndyke

    by R. Austin Freeman, Rowan Oakbourne ...
    This expansive illustrated collection gathers the essential fiction of R. Austin Freeman, including the celebrated Dr. Thorndyke investigations, the Romney Pringle adventures, and a wide range of British mysteries. Its chief distinction lies in Freeman's rigorous "inverted detective story," where the crime is often shown before the investigation begins, shifting suspense from who committed the ... Read more

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  • A Silent Witness

    by R. Austin Freeman ...
    Series Book 6 - The Dr. Thorndyke Mysteries
    Two men of science collaborate to solve a mystifying crime in this thrilling installment in the first mystery series to feature a forensic detectiveLate one evening, Dr. Humphrey Jardine is strolling along Millfield Lane in Hampstead Heath, London, when he is shocked to find a corpse lying in the middle of the road. Jardine hurries off to find a police officer, but by the time he returns, the body ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The Mystery of 31 New Inn

    by R. Austin Freeman ...
    AS I look back through the years of my association with John Thorndyke, I am able to recall a wealth of adventures and strange experiences such as falls to the lot of very few men who pass their lives within hearing of Big Ben. Many of these experiences I have already placed on record; but it now occurs to me that I have hitherto left unrecorded one that is, perhaps, the most astonishing and ... Read more

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  • DR. THORNDYKE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 21 Novels & 40 Short Stories (Illustrated)

    Scientific sleuthing and judicial puzzles in Victorian crime

    by R. Austin Freeman ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "DR. THORNDYKE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 21 Novels & 40 Short Stories (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. 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 ... Read more

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