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The Puzzle Lock – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
A gang of jewel thieves has come to the attention of the police. Will Dr. Thorndike be able to find the leader and the jewels? It would seem that the jewel merchant has a strong room with a puzzle lock where there are too many combinations to solve. But can it be done.Data dostępności:
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The Singing Bone – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
In this collection of short stories, the reader learns the killer’s identity long before the brilliant medical detective takes the stage. These are brilliant early examples of open secrets where the question is not who, but how will they be caught?Data dostępności:
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The Magic Casket – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
The Magic Casket – Thorndike solves the mystery of the box in order to locate a jewel stolen from a client and get rid of the dastardly Japanese who are after them in every way.Data dostępności:
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John Thorndyke’s Cases – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
Dr. Thorndike is a physician and lawyer who lectures on medical jurisprudence. He is also a Grade A detective with a first-rate brain and excellent powers of observation, as well as a talent for scientific analysis. He aids the purposes of justice by reading out a completely unforeseen decision from a set of clues that the authorities have misinterpreted.Data dostępności:
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The Case of Oscar Brodski – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
A suburban train runs over a man lying on the rails. Passengers at the nearest station recognize the famous gem dealer Oscar Brodsky as the deceased. Was it an accident, suicide or murder? In less than half a day, Dr. Thorndike, known for his scientific method of solving crimes, solves the mystery.Data dostępności:
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Dr. Thorndyke’s Crime File – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
Dr. John Thorndike is a fictional detective in a series of novels. He is a medical lawyer – a doctor by origin, he turned to the bar and became one of the first, in modern terms, forensic experts. His decisions were based on his method of collecting all possible data.Data dostępności:
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Dr. Thorndyke’s Case-Book – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
This book is a collection of short stories about one of Sherlock Holmes’ most prominent rivals: Dr. Thorndyke and Jervis. Doyle’s characters may be better, but Freeman spins a lot of mysteries based on reasoning.Data dostępności:
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A Silent Witness – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
All the Dr. Thorndyke books are outstanding. This one is no exception. In this installment, the action centers on one Dr. Humphrey Jardine, who is the narrator of the story, and who himself is the focus of several strange events. Jardine’s troubles begin with a casual walk, where he comes across the body of a man and runs to fetch the police, only to come back and find that the dead man has disappeared....Data dostępności:
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The Jacob Street Mystery – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
R. Austin Freeman’s mysteries are often divided into two parts, the first dealing with events leading up to a murder, followed by Dr. Thorndyke’s investigation. In this case, the first part, about a beautiful woman who poses as a serious artist, then disappears, is delightful. It details the friendship between Thomas Pedley and Loretta Schiller. The second part is written in the first person with Jervis,...Data dostępności:
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Mr. Pottermack’s Oversight – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
Mr. Pottermack, wrongly convicted for forgery of checks, has escaped from jail, made his fortune in the US and come back to England to find his fiance. The only one who is cleverer than Mr. Pottermack is Freeman’s detective, Dr. Thorndyke. In this novel, the sympathetic, engaging and enterprising Mr. Pottermack commits the perfect crime, only to discover that a perfect crime is the last thing in the...Data dostępności:
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The Mystery of 31 New Inn – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
Second in the Dr. Thorndyke mystery series set in London around 1900. Thorndyke is a lawyer and medical doctor who reasons out mysteries. This involves a young doctor friend who Thorndyke hires as his assistant whose strange case involving a mysteries man and couple who are caring for him and an inheritance case brought to Thorndyke. A classic English mystery with the detective, Dr. Thorndyke, solving...Data dostępności:
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The Surprising Experiences of Mr. Shuttlebury Cobb – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
Richard Austin Freeman, the doyen of the scientific division of detective writing is best known for his character Dr. John Thorndyke. A close and careful investigator and the outstanding medical authority in the field of detective fiction, R. Austin Freeman not only tested the wits of the reader but also inspired many modern detective forensic methods. „Shuttlebury Cobb” is a completely different sort...Data dostępności:
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The Cat’s Eye – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
Narrated by Robert Anstey, who is acting as Thorndyke’s counsel as Jervis is away in America. He walks right into a murder scene, attracted by the screams of a beautiful young woman. The dead man is a harmless old bachelor who collects objects of arcane appeal. Several pieces of inscribed jewelry are missing. It’s a strange sort of burglary perpetrated by clumsy amateurs – who nonetheless got clean...Data dostępności:
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A Certain Dr. Thorndyke – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
John Osborne is a young gentleman who has left England for some, as of yet, unknown reason. He settles in Adaffia, an ends-of-the-earth type of town on the Gold Coast. Almost immediately he gets into a fight defending the only other white man in town, a drunken trader. And we see that Osborne is a tremendous fighter skilled at ju-jitsu, boxing, wrestling and strategy. These skills will come into play...Data dostępności:
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The Stoneware Monkey – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
First, there are two seemingly unrelated events: the murder of a constable in pursuit of a diamond thief and the attempt to poison a potter by using arsenic. The connection lies in the presence of Dr. Oldfield, a Dr. Thorndyke’s former student, who happened to find the constable body and served as the consulting physician of the potter. Dr. Oldfield once again found a trace of murder: ashes of cremated...Data dostępności:
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The Eye of Osiris – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
„The Eye of Osiris”, published in 1911, was the second of R. Austin Freeman’s many Dr. Thorndyke mystery novels. Here the great expert in medical jurisprudence will encounter the mysteries of ancient Egypt – without ever leaving London. The cast of characters is rich in Egyptologists. A wealthy old man, John Bellingham, collector of Egyptian antiquities, has disappeared without a trace. His brother...Data dostępności:
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As a Thief in the Night – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
R. Austin Freeman was one of the best mystery writers ever and this book is one to prove it. Harold Monkhouse is a very sick man but no one including his doctor seems to know what is wrong with him. When he is found dead of arsenic poisoning, his brother demands an investigation and everyone in the household is a suspect. Who was behind this cruel death; the loving wife, Barbara; her friend, Madeline...Data dostępności:
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For The Defence – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
Dr. Thorndyke is the CSI of his day. Most of the book is taken up with the account of how an innocent man gets himself thoroughly entangled in what looks like the certainty that he will be hanged, either for the death of a man he saw only once, or amazingly, for his own death! But, of course, Dr. Thorndyke is able to extricate him from this awful situation and triumph yet again. This is the amazing...Data dostępności:
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The Exploits of Danby Croker – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
What would you do if your doppelganger were committing crimes and making the police believe you were the perpetrator? In Danby Croker’s case, he decides to retaliate! But that is only one of the problems besetting him in this set of interlinked stories. Given a job as an antique dealer, can he resist the temptations of earning some easy money through a bit of fencing and counterfeiting? And what on...Data dostępności:
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Death at the Inn – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
John Gillum arrives in London from Australia apparently a wealthy man and then proceeds to cheerfully gamble his entire fortune away. During this period he cultivates the friendship of Mortimer, the bank official after meeting him at the scene of a murder near the bank. He mentions in conversation that he felt suicide was a very understandable option to someone who had lost everything. When Gillum’s...Data dostępności:
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