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Dr. Thorndyke's Cases: 3 British Forensic Mystery Classics in One Volume
Dr. Thorndyke's Cases: 3 British Forensic Mystery Classics in One Volume
Dr. Thorndyke's Cases: 3 British Forensic Mystery Classics in One Volume
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Dr. John Thorndyke is a fictional detective in a series of novels. He is a medical jurispractitioner - originally a medical doctor, he turned to the bar and became one of the first, in modern parlance, forensic scientists. His solutions were based on his method of collecting all possible data (including dust and pond weed) and making inferences from them before looking at any of the protagonists and motives in the crimes. It is this method which gave rise to one of Freeman's most ingenious inventions, the inverted detective story, where the criminal act is described first and the interest lies in Thorndyke's subsequent unraveling of it._x000D_ Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology._x000D_ This edition includes: The Red Thumb Mark_x000D_ The Eye of Osiris (The Vanishing Man)_x000D_ The Mystery of 31 New Inn
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PublisherDigiCat
Release dateMay 17, 2022
ISBN8596547009061
Dr. Thorndyke's Cases: 3 British Forensic Mystery Classics in One Volume
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R. Austin Freeman

R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943) was a British author of detective stories. A pioneer of the inverted detective story, in which the reader knows from the start who committed the crime, Freeman is best known as the creator of the “medical jurispractitioner” Dr. John Thorndyke. First introduced in The Red Thumb Mark (1907), the brilliant forensic investigator went on to star in dozens of novels and short stories over the next decades. 

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