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The Great Portrait Mystery and Other Stories (Dodo Press) by R Austin Freeman (Paperback / softback, 2008)

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Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story and used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his vels. A large proportion of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific kwledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology. His first stories were written in collaboration with Dr. John James Pitcairn (1860-1936), medical officer at Holloway Prison and published under the m de plume Clifford Ashdown. His first Thorndyke story, The Red Thumb Mark, was published in 1907 and shortly afterwards he pioneered the inverted detective story, in which the identity of the criminal is shown from the beginning: some short stories with this feature were collected in The Singing Bone in 1912. His other works include John Thorndyke's Cases (1909), The Eye of Osiris (1911), The Vanishing Man (1911), The Mystery of 31 New Inn (1912), The Uttermost Farthing: A Savant's Vendetta (1913), A Silent Witness (1914), Helen Vardon's Confession (1922) and The Cat's Eye (1923).

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Dodo Press
ISBN-10
1406598755
ISBN-13
9781406598759
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189039323

Product Key Features

Format
Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Author
R Austin Freeman

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication
14/03/2008
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Country of Publication
United Kingdom

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