1K - The Complete Dr.Thorndyke - Volume IX : The Stoneware Monkey Mr. Polton Explains and The Jacob Street Mystery - Paperback

The Complete Dr Thorndyke: Volume IX by R. Austin Freeman is edited by David Marcum. This paperback volume brings together three full-length Dr Thorndyke adventures.

Included titles

• The Stoneware Monkey
• Mr. Polton Explains
• The Jacob Street Mystery

Key details

• Format: paperback
• Editor: David Marcum
• ISBN: 9781787056909
• Page count: 632
• Publication date: 12 March 2021

Synopsis

Volume IX contains the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first full-length Thorndyke adventures, originally published in 1938, 1940 and 1942. Across these three narratives, Thorndyke’s methods continue to develop, with each case offering fresh opportunities for his skills to come to the fore.

In The Stoneware Monkey, a young doctor’s meeting with a modern sculptor leads into a troubling corner of the art world, and a seemingly worthless stoneware figure becomes central to the investigation. Mr. Polton Explains shifts the focus to Nathaniel Polton, who recounts his early life and the path that brought him to Thorndyke, before a memory from his youth helps unlock a present-day mystery. The Jacob Street Mystery begins with an artist and an insistent neighbour, and turns on a disappearance that points to an unusually distinctive killer.

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