The Magic Casket (Dr Thorndyke)

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• The Magic Casket (Thorndyke Mystery #13)
• Author:Richard Austin Freeman
• The Magic Casket (Thorndyke Mystery #13)

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This could also be since this is the first book i am reading on the adventures of Dr. Thorndyke and Jarvis and i might be expecting another Dr. In summary, i enjoyed the book and would like to read more on Dr. He hasn't really caught on to Thorndyke's methods despite working with him for so many years.

But he has caught on to some things and the story that had a guy teasing him about collecting dust and some items off the floor like Thorndyke would was quite amusing. Despite reading so many Thorndyke books, I'm still reading more and have never found any of them boring or "bad". Jan 27, P. Nine short stories, all of them are good, a few are excellent. Margherita Morgante rated it really liked it Apr 28, Sandy rated it really liked it Apr 30, Janine Harms rated it really liked it Oct 09, Rachel U rated it it was amazing Mar 04, Jhonne rated it it was amazing Apr 14, Amanda Mclaughlin rated it it was amazing May 08, Philip rated it liked it Sep 10, David Groose rated it it was amazing Mar 07, Peter Haugen rated it it was amazing Feb 23, Ruth Shultz rated it did not like it Jul 09, Knickerbocker rated it it was amazing May 23, Leszek Godlewski rated it liked it Dec 01, Theresa A Snyder rated it did not like it Dec 13, Moore rated it it was ok Dec 12, Denise rated it really liked it Jul 06, Ellen Hamilton rated it it was amazing Oct 03, BookishDreamer rated it liked it Jan 21, Anne Wingate rated it it was amazing Nov 29, Katherine Rowland rated it liked it Mar 22, Arun Raj rated it it was amazing Apr 28, Vikki rated it liked it Nov 15, Nick Fuller rated it really liked it Jun 26, Richard Austin Freeman 11 April — 28 September was a British writer of detective stories , mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr.

He claimed to have invented the inverted detective story a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's attempt to solve the mystery.

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Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine , metallurgy and toxicology.

He first trained as an apothecary and then studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital , qualifying in The same year he married Annie Elizabeth, with whom he had two sons. In he returned to London after suffering from blackwater fever but was unable to find a permanent medical position, and so decided to settle down in Gravesend and earn money from writing fiction, while continuing to practise medicine. His first stories were written in collaboration with John James Pitcairn — , medical officer at Holloway Prison , and published under the nom de plume "Clifford Ashdown".

His first Thorndyke story, The Red Thumb Mark , was published in , 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 During the First World War he served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps and afterwards produced a Thorndyke novel almost every year until his death in Freeman claimed to have invented the inverted detective story in his collection of short stories The Singing Bone.

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The first part was a minute and detailed description of a crime, setting forth the antecedents, motives, and all attendant circumstances. The reader had seen the crime committed, knew all about the criminal, and was in possession of all the facts. It would have seemed that there was nothing left to tell, but I calculated that the reader would be so occupied with the crime that he would overlook the evidence.



And so it turned out. The second part, which described the investigation of the crime, had to most readers the effect of new matter.