v.5. 1/2016. Few typos eliminated.
V.3. 11/11/2014. Eliminated duplication. Added one novel instead (The Uttermost Farthing). Added requested short story: The Great Portrait Mystery.
This volume contains 14 full-length novels as well as 28 short stories featuring the best medico-legal forensic investigator ever to exist in fiction: Dr.Thorndyke.
It also features NON Dr.Thorndyke material from R.Austin Freeman: one novel and two short stories.
Written 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 OVER 1.7 million words this volume includes the following novels and short stories:
NOVELS
1. THE SHADOW OF THE WOLF
2. THE D'ARBLAY MYSTERY
3. A CERTAIN DR THORNDYKE
4. AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT
5. MR POTTERMACK'S OVERSIGHT
6. PONTIFEX, SON AND THORNDYKE
7. WHEN ROGUES FALL OUT
8. Dr Thorndyke Intervenes
9. FOR THE DEFENCE, DR. THORNDYKE
10. The Penrose Mystery
11. Felo de Se?
12. The Stoneware Monkey
13. Mr Polton Explains
14. The Jacob Street Mystery
15. The Uttermost Farthing.
SHORT STORIES
BOOK ONE
THE SINGING BONE
ORIGINAL PREFACE TO "THE SINGING BONE"
1.THE CASE OF OSCAR BRODSKI
2. A CASE OF PREMEDITATION
3. THE ECHO OF A MUTINY
4. A WASTREL'S ROMANCE
5. THE OLD LAG
BOOK TWO
THE GREAT PORTRAIT MYSTERY (1918)
1. THE MISSING MORTGAGEE
2. PERCIVAL BLAND'S PROXY
3. THE GREAT PORTRAIT MYSTERY
4. THE BRONZE PARROT
BOOK THREE
DR. THORNDYKE'S CASE BOOK (1923)
(a.k.a. The Blue Scarab)
1. A FISHER OF MEN
2. THE STOLEN INGOTS
3. THE FUNERAL PYRE
BOOK FOUR
THE PUZZLE LOCK (1925)
1. THE PUZZLE LOCK
2. THE GREEN CHECK JACKET
3. THE SEAL OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR
4. PHYLLIS ANNESLEY'S PERIL
5.A SOWER OF PESTILENCE
6. REX V. BURNABY
7. A MYSTERY OF THE SAND-HILLS
8. THE APPARITION OF BURLING COURT
9. THE MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
BOOK FIVE
THE MAGIC CASKET (1927)
1. THE MAGIC CASKET
2. THE CONTENTS OF A MARE'S NEST
3. THE STALKING HORSE
4. THE NATURALIST AT LAW
5. MR. PONTING'S ALIBI
6. PANDORA'S BOX
7. THE TRAIL OF BEHEMOTH
8. THE PATHOLOGIST TO THE RESCUE
9. GLEANINGS FROM THE WRECKAGE
v.5. 1/2016. Few typos eliminated.
V.3. 11/11/2014. Eliminated duplication. Added one novel instead (The Uttermost Farthing). Added requested short story: The Great Portrait Mystery.
This volume contai...
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