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

Politics and Government

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

From Dust to Pondweed: Forensic Sleuthing in Inverted Detective MysteriesBy R. Austin Freeman

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

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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke: 40 of His Criminal Investigations (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. 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

Detective Mystery Crime Hidden Identity Thriller Identity Conspiracy

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GenrePolitics and Government

Length43 hrs 50 mins

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Publish dateMar 23, 2016

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Table of contents

1The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke: 40 of His Criminal Investigations

25The Touchstone

2Introduction: MEET DR. THORNDYKE

26A Fisher of Men

3Short Stories

27The Stolen Ingots

4PERCIVAL BLAND’S PROXY

28The Funeral Pyre

5THE MISSING MORTGAGEE

29THE PUZZLE LOCK

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6DR. THORNDYKE’S CASES

30The Puzzle Lock

7The Man With the Nailed Shoes

31The Green Check Jacket

8The Stranger&#x27;s Latchkey

32The Seal of Nebuchadnezzar

9The Anthropologist at Large

33Phyllis Annesley&#x27;s Peril

10The Blue Sequin

34A Sower of Pestilence

11The Moabite Cipher

35Rex v. Burnaby

12The Mandarin&#x27;s Pearl

36A Mystery of the Sand-Hills

13The Aluminium Dagger

37The Apparition of Burling Court

14A Message From the Deep Sea

38The Mysterious Visitor

15THE ADVENTURES OF DR. THORNDYKE

39THE MAGIC CASKET

16The Case of Oscar Brodski

40The Magic Casket

17A Case of Premeditation

41The Contents of a Mare&#x27;s Nest

18The Echo of a Mutiny

42The Stalking Horse

19A Wastrel&#x27;s Romance

43The Naturalist at Law

20The Old Lag

44Mr. Ponting&#x27;s Alibi

21DR. THORNDYKE’S CASEBOOK

45Pandora&#x27;s Box

22The Case of the White Footprints

46The Trail of Behemoth

23The Blue Scarab

47The Pathologist to the Rescue

24The New Jersey Sphinx

48Gleanings From the Wreckage

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