The Works of R. Austin Freeman: 28 Novels and Short Stories (Halcyon Classics)

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains twenty-eight novels and short stories by British mystery writer R. Austin Freeman, who wrote during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" during the 1920s and 1930s. Freeman (1862-1943) claimed to have invented the inverted detective story, whereby the crime in question is described in detail, with the story revolving around the detective's efforts to solve it.



Most of Freeman's stories include the character of Dr. Thorndyke, a doctor and forensic scientist. His ingenious 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.



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Dr. Thorndyke Novels:

• The Red Thumb Mark

• The Eye of Osiris

• The Mystery of 31 New Inn

• A Silent Witness

• Helen Vardon’s Confessions

• When Rogues Fall Out

• The Jacob Street Mystery



Dr. Thorndyke Short Stories:

• The Case of the White Footprints

• 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



Other Works:

• The Great Portrait Mystery

• The Uttermost Farthing

• A Mystery of the Sand-Hills

• The Kimberley Fugitive

• The Mysterious Visitor

• The Silkworms of Florence

• The Submarine Boat