The stranger’s latchkey

By Richard Austin Freeman

With this story we are at the beginnings of the literature on the scientific police investigations. This ebook is an extract from "John Thorndyke's Cases", published in 1909, which collects some of best Dr. Thorndyke's crime investigations. This edition contains the original illustrations of the novel, a detailed biography including all the publications of the Author and a brief biography. Thorndyke lives in London, at 5A of King's Bench Walk, in the Inner Temple. In his house, in addition to his apartment, there's a fully equipped laboratory for chemical investigation, photographic, microscopic and other.

This interactive digital edition includes: Interactive Notes and Chapters, News about the Author, News about the Book, a very interesting Tag cloud of the Book and a link to connect to the Goodreads community to ask questions and share comments and opinions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Youcanprint Self-Publishing
• Release date: Jan 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9788893321747

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With this story we are at the beginnings of the literature on the scientific police investigations. This ebook is an extract from John Thorndyke's Cases, published in 1909, which collects some of best Dr. Thorndyke's crime investigations. This edition contains the original illustrations of the novel, a detailed biography including all the publications of the Author and a brief biography. Thorndyke lives in London, at 5A of King's Bench Walk, in the Inner Temple. In his house, in addition to his apartment, there's a fully equipped laboratory for chemical investigation, photographic, microscopic and other.

This interactive digital edition includes: Interactive Notes and Chapters, News about the Author, News about the Book, a very interesting Tag cloud of the Book and a link to connect to the Goodreads community to ask questions and share comments and opinions.

Richard Austin Freeman (11 April 1862 – 28 September 1943). His education at Middlesex Hospital in London allowed him to get degrees in medicine and surgery. He went soon after in Accra, Ghana, to occupy a colonial surgeon station. But diseases broked out and ruined his career. Back in England, he became ear, nose and throat specialist and tutor, before devoting himself full-time to writing in 1919.

In 1898 he shot his African experience, before turning to the detective genre, written in collaboration with John James Pitcairn and featuring the friendly rogue Romney Pringle. But he got tired of this hero and tried only to develop a detective-doctor in The Mystery of 31 New Inn, a short novel written in 1905, but did not immediately published to further refine his new detective.

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