The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke: 40 of His Criminal Investigations (Illustrated)

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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