Complete Thorndyke - Volumes 1 - 3 Hardcover Bundle

Complete Thorndyke - Volumes 1 - 3 Hardcover Bundle brings together the opening instalments of the nine-volume Complete Thorndyke collection. This hardback set comprises Volumes I to III, combining the earliest novels with the full run of Thorndyke short stories.

Included titles

• The Red Thumb Mark
• The Eye of Osiris
• The Mystery of 31 New Inn
• John Thorndyke's Cases
• The Singing Bone
• The Great Portrait Mystery
• Dr. Thorndyke’s Casebook
• The Puzzle Lock
• The Magic Casket

Key details

• Hardcover bundle of Volumes I to III from the nine-volume Complete Thorndyke collection
• Volume I contains three Thorndyke novels first published in 1907, 1911 and 1912
• Volume II includes fifteen short stories from the first three story collections, plus two apocryphal Thorndyke tales
• Volume III includes twenty-five short stories from the final three story collections
• Across Volumes II and III, the set presents the complete short Thorndyke mysteries

Synopsis

Volume I opens with three early Thorndyke novels set in London while Sherlock Holmes is still in practice, introducing Dr. Thorndyke and his world alongside a portrait of the city in that era.

Volumes II and III gather the Thorndyke short stories across six collections, including examples of the “inverted” mystery form, where the criminal and method are revealed early and the narrative turns to how Thorndyke proves the case. Volume II also adds the original 1905 novella version of “31, New Inn” and “The Dead Hand” (1912), later revised and expanded into The Shadow of the Wolf (1925). Suitable for readers of classic detective fiction and short-form mysteries.

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