The Complete Dr. Thorndyke - Volume III

<p>Volume III contains the remaining half of the Thorndyke Short Stories. These along with the contents of 2018’s Volume II (with the first half of the short stories and a few rare Apocryphal items) presents the complete short Thorndyke mysteries for a new generation.</p><p>In all there are over forty Thorndyke short stories spread over six books. This volume contains all twenty-five stories from the final three collections <strong>Dr. Thorndyke’s Casebook</strong> <strong>The Puzzle Lock</strong> and <strong>The Magic Casket</strong>.</p><p>Some of the stories in this book are especially famous as Freeman was the first to use the “inverted” mystery in which the criminal (and how he did it) are identified during the first half of the story and the second half of the narrative shows how Thorndyke solves it in spite of the criminal’s every effort. (The “inverted” crime story was later used to great success by Columbo as well as other detectives.)</p>