1. R. Austin Freeman

    British writer (1862-1943)

    Dr. Richard Austin Freeman was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story. This invention has been described as Freeman's most notable contribution to detective fiction. Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but sometimes arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Dr. Richard Austin Freeman MRCS LSA (11 April 1862 - 28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke.He invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing ...
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  4. bookseriesinorder.com

    R. Austin Freeman was a great novelist from The United Kingdom, who was famous for writing mystery, thriller, fiction, and travel genre novels. He was particularly popular for writing the Dr. Thorndyke Mysteries book series. Freeman was born as Richard Austin Freeman on April 11, 1862, in Soho, London. Throughout the course of his writing ...
  5. britannica.com

    Jan 1, 2025Richard Austin Freeman (born 1862, London—died Sept. 30, 1943, Gravesend, Kent, Eng.) was a popular English author of novels and short stories featuring the fictional character John Thorndyke, a pathologist-detective. Educated as a physician and surgeon, Freeman practiced in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), where he caught a fever. Eventually ...
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  6. en.wikipedia.org

    Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke is a fictional detective in a long series of 21 novels and 40 short stories by British author R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943). Thorndyke was described by his author as a 'medical jurispractitioner': originally a medical doctor, he turned to the bar and became one of the first — in modern parlance — forensic scientists. His solutions were based on his method of ...
  7. online-literature.com

    R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943), British physician and author of the Dr. John Thorndyke detective crime series including The Red Thumb Mark (1907). Richard Austin Freeman was born on 11 April 1862 in Marylebone, London, England, the youngest of the five children of tailor Richard Freeman (1822/3-1890) and Ann Maria Dunn. Not much of his life is ...
  8. gutenberg.org

    The shadow of the Wolf R. Austin Freeman 2125 downloads; John Thorndyke's Cases R. Austin Freeman 425 downloads The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke R. Austin Freeman 282 downloads; The Mystery of 31 New Inn R. Austin Freeman 249 downloads; The D'Arblay mystery R. Austin Freeman 213 downloads; The Red Thumb Mark R. Austin Freeman 200 downloads; As a thief in the night R. Austin Freeman 196 downloads
  9. The Works of R. Austin Freeman: 28 Novels and Short Stories (Halcyon Classics) - Kindle edition by Freeman, R. Austin. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Works of R. Austin Freeman: 28 Novels and Short Stories (Halcyon Classics).
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  10. en.wikisource.org

    Jun 15, 2024R. Austin Freeman at Project Gutenberg Australia Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930. This author died in 1943, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 81 years or less .

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