The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke: 40 of His Criminal Investigations (Illustrated) (ePub)

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Dr. John Thorndyke 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. (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 unraveling of it.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Meet Dr. Thorndyke
Short Stories
Percival Bland's Proxy
The Missing Mortgagee
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 Oscar Brodski
A Case of Premeditation
The Echo of a Mutiny
A Wastrel's Romance
The Old Lag
The Case of the White Footprints
The Blue Scarab
The New Jersey Sphinx
The Touchstone
A Fisher of Men
The Stolen Ingots
The Funeral Pyre
The Puzzle Lock
The Green Check Jacket
The Seal of Nebuchadnezzar
Phyllis Annesley's Peril
A Sower of Pestilence
Rex v. Burnaby
A Mystery of the Sand-Hills
The Apparition of Burling Court
The Mysterious Visitor
The Magic Casket
The Contents of a Mare's Nest
The Stalking Horse
The Naturalist at Law
Mr. Ponting's Alibi
Pandora's Box
The Trail of Behemoth
The Pathologist to the Rescue
Gleanings from the Wreckage