by R. Austin Freeman
After two novels this is the first short story collection about Thorndyke I've read. The enjoyment stays the same, Freeman can clearly built engaging cases on 20 pages as well as on 200. However what becomes noticable in now the third book I've read is that Thorndyke is less of a character and more ...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13882PROFESSOR POPPELBAUM IS ENLIGHTENED.CONTENTSI. THE MAN WITH THE NAILED SHOESII. THE STRANGER'S LATCHKEYIII. THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AT LARGEIV. THE BLUE SEQUINV. THE MOABITE CIPHERVI. THE MANDARIN'S PEARLVII. THE ALUMINIUM DAGGERVIII. A MESSAGE FROM THE DEEP SEA
R. Austin Freeman, John Thorndyke's Cases (1909).First sentence: "There are, I suppose, few places even on the east coast of England more lonely and remote than the village of Little Sundersley and the country that surrounds it."P. 99: "He took up the horn and tapped it with his finger, while the so...
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