1C - The Complete Dr. Thorndyke - Volume III: Short Stories (Part II) - Dr. Thorndyke's Casebook, The Puzzle Lock and The Magic Casket, Hardcover

The Complete Dr. Thorndyke Volume III by R. Austin Freeman is edited by David Marcum. This hardback volume completes the short-story Dr. Thorndyke mysteries presented across Volumes II and III.

Included titles

• Dr. Thorndyke’s Casebook
• The Puzzle Lock
• The Magic Casket

Key details

• Author: R. Austin Freeman
• Edited by David Marcum
• Format: hardback
• Pages: 560
• ISBN: 9781787055322
• Publication date: 2 April 2020

Synopsis

Volume III brings together the remaining half of the Thorndyke short stories, completing the short-form mysteries when read alongside the contents of Volume II. In total, there are over forty Thorndyke stories across six books; this edition gathers twenty-five stories from the final three collections: Dr. Thorndyke’s Casebook, The Puzzle Lock, and The Magic Casket.

Several of these stories are noted for Freeman’s early use of the “inverted” mystery, where the criminal and method are revealed in the opening portion and the narrative then follows Thorndyke’s route to the solution. Suitable for readers interested in classic detective short fiction and the development of crime-story structures.

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