John Bellingham, an Egyptologist, disappears without trace, leaving a will so badly drawn that his family is trapped in legal tangles. When human bones turn up in a watercress bed, the brilliant lecturer in medical jurisprudence John Thorndyke applies his scientific methods to the puzzle, while his former student falls in love with the missing man’s niece.
Among the finest of the Thorndyke novels, a landmark of scientific detection. Download the free EPUB.