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

The Complete Dr. Thorndyke Volume III: Short Stories (Part II) is a collection by R. Austin Freeman, edited by David Marcum. This paperback volume brings together the final three short-story collections featuring Dr. Thorndyke.

Included titles

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

Key details

• Author: R. Austin Freeman
• Edited by David Marcum
• Format: Paperback
• Page count: 560
• ISBN: 9781787055339
• Publication date: 2 April 2020

Synopsis

Volume III contains the remaining half of the Thorndyke short stories, completing the short-form mysteries when read alongside the contents of 2018’s Volume II, which gathers the first half of the stories and a small number of rare apocryphal items. Across six books there are more than forty Thorndyke short stories; this instalment presents all twenty-five stories from the final three collections: Dr. Thorndyke’s Casebook, The Puzzle Lock, and The Magic Casket.

Several of these pieces are noted for Freeman’s early use of the “inverted” mystery, where the criminal and method are revealed early and the narrative then follows Thorndyke’s process of solving the case despite sustained attempts to evade him.

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