In these stories Freeman turns the detective story inside out: the first part of each tale shows the crime being committed, and the second shows the medical jurist Dr. John Thorndyke reconstructing it from physical evidence. The cases include the death of the diamond dealer Oscar Brodski, a carefully planned killing and a lighthouse keeper haunted by an old mutiny.
The collection that established the inverted detective story, a model for later mysteries in which the reader knows who did it from the start. Download the free EPUB.