7 best short stories by R. Austin Freeman

Zusatztext

R. Austin Freemanwas a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have 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 the detective's attempt to solve the mystery). Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels.
 This book contains:
 
 The Case of Oscar Brodski.
 A Case of Premeditation.
 The Echo of a Mutiny.
 The Anthropologist at Large.
 The Aluminum Dagger.
 By the Black Deep.
 A Message From The Deep Sea.

Autorenportrait

Richard Austin Freeman (11 April 1862 28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have 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 the detective's attempt to solve the mystery). Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels.

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