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
Length43h 50m
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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
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government
Length43 hrs 50 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 23, 2016
LanguageEnglish
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's Latchkey
32The Seal of Nebuchadnezzar
9The Anthropologist at Large
33Phyllis Annesley's Peril
10The Blue Sequin
34A Sower of Pestilence
11The Moabite Cipher
35Rex v. Burnaby
12The Mandarin'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's Nest
18The Echo of a Mutiny
42The Stalking Horse
19A Wastrel's Romance
43The Naturalist at Law
20The Old Lag
44Mr. Ponting's Alibi
21DR. THORNDYKE’S CASEBOOK
45Pandora'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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