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 ...
Jarvis, the narrator of this novel, is a doctor who is currently lacking money, a proper job and a place to live. By chance he meets Thorndyke, an old frend from his university-times. Thorndyke is a lecturer but also a medio-legal consultant who (at least in this book) is employed by the defense to ...
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
2-part structure easy to follow. Thorndyke offers little beyond a stock empirical prowess to endear him. The most intriguing character is Polton, the assistant who gets no lines.
British author R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943) primarily wrote detective stories and is best known for his legal/forensic investigator Dr. John Thorndyke, using Freeman's early experiences as a colonial surgeon to help inspire and inform his work. Freeman is credited with inventing the inverted detect...
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...
Richard Austin Freeman wrote a series of Dr. Thonrdyke mysteries in the early 20th century. According to the Wikipedia, he invented the inverted mystery where the crime is described firs,t and then Thorndyke, a medico-legal specialist, helps to solve the crime. I had never heard of Freeman until I w...
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