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  • THE MYSTERY OF 31 NEW INN
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    A classic English mystery with the detective, Dr. Thorndyke, solving what appears to be two disparate mysteries. One is an apparent suicide with a disputed will; the other is one of his sidekick's (Dr. Jervis) odd case of an apparent poisoning. ...

    $39.70

  • THE VANISHING MAN A DETECTIVE ROMANCE
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    The plot begins with John Bellingham, an internationally renowned archaeologist who mysteriously vanishes while traveling home after an Egyptian treasure hunt. However, Bellingham appears to have left hints about his whereabouts. Instead of following the leads, Dr. Thorndyke starts looking for a man who has the Eye of Osiris tattooed on his body. There are parts of the body fou...

    $39.70

  • THE ADVENTURES OF DR. THORNDYKE
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    The Adventures of Dr Thorndyke features five short stories, each divided into two halves. In the first half of each, we get an inverted mystery set up, showing how some soul was led down a dark path to murder, and their subsequent steps to avoid detection. In the second half, the story completely shifts perspective, and we watch as series detective Dr Thorndyke applies scientif...

    $39.70

  • JOHN THORNDYKE'S CASES
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    This is a compendium of eight short stories written by Freeman before 1909 and compiled into his first collection of short stories. He must have been very popular by then because it was actually the second "Thorndyke" book published. ...

    $39.70

  • THE D'ARBLAY MYSTERY
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    Austin Freeman. When a man is found floating beneath the skin of a green-skimmed pond one morning, Dr Thorndyke becomes embroiled in an astonishing case. This wickedly entertaining detective fiction reveals that the victim was murdered through a lethal injection and someone out there is trying to cover it up. ...

    $39.70

  • AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    One of R. Austin Freeman's three or four best, although not one of his best-known books. The crime is modelled on the Maybrick case: murder of a chronic invalid by arsenic poisoning suspected by his brother, with suspicion falling on his wife. ...

    $39.70

  • THE RED THUMB MARK
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    In "The Red Thumbmark "by R Austin Freeman, published in 1907, a single fingerprint is found at the scene of a crime. When the police are able to identify that fingerprint, the case seems closed. ...

    $39.70

  • THE EYE OF OSIRIS
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    The Eye of Osiris by R. Austin Freeman is the tantalizing tale of a missing world-renowned archaeologist. John Bellingham returned from a trip to Egypt only to immediately disappear from his cousin's home. Or did he? ...

    $39.70

  • THE UTTERMOST FARTHING A SAVANT'S VENDETTA
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    This work by R. Austin Freeman is not a Dr. Thorndyke mystery. Instead, it is the disturbing account of how a man wreaks vengeance on the miscreant who murdered his wife in a bungled robbery attempt. It also poses the question of how a moral society should deal with criminals. ...

    $39.70

  • THE MYSTERY OF 31 NEW INN
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    A fascinating installment in R. Austin Freeman’s classic mystery series featuring forensic detective Dr. John Thorndyke A man falls gravely ill, but is reluctant to call a doctor. As his condition worsens, he is eventually forced to seek medical aid—but he does so only under the condition that the physician does not learn his identity or address. Dr. Jervis is therefore transpo...

    $85.00

  • A SILENT WITNESS
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    Two men of science collaborate to solve a mystifying crime in this thrilling installment in the first mystery series to feature a forensic detective Late one evening, Dr. Humphrey Jardine is strolling along Millfield Lane in Hampstead Heath, London, when he is shocked to find a corpse lying in the middle of the road. Jardine hurries off to find a police officer, but by the time...

    $85.00

  • THE SINGING BONE
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    A remarkable collection of mysteries starring the brilliant Dr. Thorndyke Silas has diamonds in the heel of his shoe. He is a thief, but until the night he meets Oscar Brodski on the footpath near his house, he has never considered murder. A diamond dealer, Brodski’s pockets bulge with more precious stones than Silas has ever dreamed of, and they will be his with one swift, vio...

    $85.00

  • JOHN THORNDYKE'S CASES
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    “It would be difficult to find anywhere more nearly perfect stories of scientific deduction than the Dr. Thorndyke tales of R. Austin Freeman.” —The New York Times Visiting a lonely hamlet perched on a cliff above the English coast, forensic detective Dr. John Thorndyke goes for a walk on the long, deserted beach. In the sand he finds two sets of footprints, made some hours apa...

    $85.00

  • THE RED THUMB MARK
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    The clever and thrilling debut of literature’s first forensic detective In all of London, there are few who know more about science than Dr. John Thorndyke, and fewer still who know more about crime. A “medical jurispractitioner” equally at home in the lab or the courtroom, he has made his name confronting the deadliest criminals in England with irrefutable proof of their guilt...

    $59.00

  • THE EYE OF OSIRIS
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    To find a missing archaeologist, Dr. Thorndyke digs for a body After the great success of his latest expedition, the brilliant archaeologist John Bellingham returns from the sandy tombs of Egypt with enough ancient treasures to fill a wing at the British Museum. He visits a friend for dinner and is told to wait in the study. When the friend arrives, he finds the study empty; Be...

    $85.00

  • HELEN VARDON'S CONFESSION
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    Helen Vardon finds herself in a predicament after overhearing her father and a man named Otway arguing about funds that have gone missing from a trust. Believing that it’s the only way to save her father from going to prison, Helen agrees to marry Otway, who’s many years her senior. But their matrimony precipitates a series of events that culminates with Helen being suspected o...

    $85.00