Thorndyke - Vol 1-5 Hardcover Bundle

Thorndyke - Vol 1-5 Hardcover Bundle brings together the first five volumes of the nine-volume Complete Thorndyke collection. Presented as a hardback set, it spans early novels and extensive short fiction featuring Dr. Thorndyke.

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
• A Silent Witness
• Helen Vardon’s Confession
• The Cat’s Eye
• The Mystery of Angelina Frood
• The Shadow of the Wolf
• The D’Arblay Mystery

Key details

• Hardback bundle covering Volumes I to V of the Complete Thorndyke collection
• Volume I contains three Thorndyke novels first published in 1907, 1911 and 1912
• Volumes II and III collect the Thorndyke short stories across six books, with over forty stories in total
• Volume II includes fifteen stories from the first three collections and two apocryphal Thorndyke tales
• Volume III includes twenty-five stories from the final three short-story collections
• Volumes IV and V contain six further full-length Thorndyke novels published between 1914 and 1926

Synopsis

Across five volumes, this set traces Dr. Thorndyke’s cases through both novels and short fiction, beginning with early stories set in London while Sherlock Holmes is still in practice. The first volume introduces Thorndyke’s world and its period detail through three novels published between 1907 and 1912.

The short-story volumes draw together more than forty tales from six collections, including examples of the “inverted” mystery structure where the criminal and method are revealed early and the narrative turns to the process of detection. Volume II also adds two apocryphal items, including the 1905 novella version of “31, New Inn” and “The Dead Hand” (1912), later revised into The Shadow of the Wolf.

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