This volume contains 7 full-length novels as well as 12 short stories featuring the best medico-legal forensic investigator ever to exist in fiction: Dr.Thorndyke.
Created by R.Austin Freeman, creator of 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), Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels.
In 800.000 words this volume includes the following novels and short stories:
THE 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 SHORT STORIES:
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 THE WHITE FOOTPRINTS
THE BLUE SCARAB
THE NEW JERSEY SPHINX
THE TOUCHSTONE