The Famous Cases of Dr. Thondyke by R. Austin Freeman, Used - Very Good. 1929 Cloth Hard Cover printed by Hodder and Stoughton London England. Collectible book in good condition, cover has a small tear at head of spine, some faint smudges on cover from handling . binding is in good condition, some separtion on inside cover, pages are all tight. Nice collectible book .
The British omnibus edition of the collected Dr. Thorndyke short stories. Dr John Evelyn Thorndyke is a fictional detective in a long series of novels and short stories by British author R. Austin Freeman. Thorndyke was described by his author as 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. (Freeman, it is said, conducted all experiments mentioned in the stories himself.) 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 unravelling of it.
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