Publisher's Synopsis
About John Thorndyke's Cases by R. Austin FreemanIn the early years of the 20th Century, public interest in science is growing, and science is also being used by the police to solve more crimes. Doctor and detective John Thorndyke uses science, experiments and reasoning to solve the most puzzling cases. Stories in this collection: 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. R. Austin Freeman was a 20th century fiction author best known for detective mysteries. He went so far as to claim he invented the "inverted detective" genre, but regardless of what credit he deserves, his work continues to be read today
