Dr. Jervis is driven in a shuttered carriage to treat a mysterious patient whose illness looks very much like poisoning. At the same time Dr. Thorndyke is asked to look at the strange will of Jeffrey Blackmore, a scholar of cuneiform who died in lodgings at New Inn, and the two puzzles begin to touch.
A classic Thorndyke novel, built on Freeman’s careful scientific method. Download the free EPUB.