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Free to read
All free classicsHelen Vardon's confession
The blue scarab
The mystery of Angelina Frood
A silent witness
The magic casket
John Thorndyke's Cases
As a thief in the night
The Red Thumb Mark
The adventures of Dr. Thorndyke (The singing bone)
The Mystery of 31 New Inn
The Vanishing Man
The Uttermost Farthing
The Eye of Osiris
The D'Arblay mystery
About R. Austin Freeman
Dr. Richard Austin Freeman was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story. This invention has been described as Freeman's most notable contribution to detective fiction. Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but sometimes arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology.
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