Pontifex, Son and Thorndyke E-Book

R. Austin Freeman

• Herausgeber: Ktoczyta.pl
• Kategorie: Krimi
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Dr.Thornedyke’s methods of detection are characterised by investigations of apparently irrelevant facts and lengthy explanations of his train of hypothetical reasoning. In this novel, Dr. Thorndyke’s ability to identify fish scales and rope material sets his investigation in motion. The crime is the murder of an aristocrat staged to look like a suicide. There are really two stories alternating, which eventually become one. We watch Dr. Thorndyke follow a thin and improbable trail of forensic evidence. And we observe the seemingly unrelated adventures of a stationer’s delivery boy, who innocently gets in the way of a cutthroat gang. Dr. Thorndyke calls Jasper after hearing his amazing story. The complex, gripping and rather romantic plot once again demonstrates the greatness of A. Austin Freeman as a writer of totally engaging and original crime fiction.

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Contents

I. DESTINY IN AN EGG-CHEST

II. TREASURE TROVE

III. A MYSTERY AND A DISAPPEARANCE

IV. MR. BRODRIBB’S PERPLEXITIES

V. FINE FEATHERS MAKE FINE BIRDS

VI. A VISIT TO STRATFORD ATTE BOW

VII. NUMBER FIVE PIPER’S ROW

VIII. SIR EDWARD HARDCASTLE, BART., DECEASED

IX. THE CROWNER’S QUEST

X. A SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE

XI. ASHDOD REVISITED

XII. OF A HANSOM CAB AND A BLACK EAGLE

XIII. MR. BRODRIBB’S DISCOVERY

XIV. NEW LIGHT ON THE PROBLEM

XV. THORNDYKE’S PLAN OF ATTACK

XVI. MRS. DAVID HARDCASTLE

XVII. SOME STATEMENTS AND A TRAGEDY

XVIII. THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE