The Singing Bone (Freeman)

The Singing Bone (Freeman) (1912)
by R. Austin Freeman

(US Title: The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke). Five Short stories of crime and mystery featuring Dr. Thorndyke, the "Scientific Investigator." Some stories display Freeman's then pioneering technique of the "inverted detective story"

"Some years ago I devised, as an experiment, an inverted detective story in two parts. The first part was a minute and detailed description of a crime, setting forth the antecedents, motives, and all attendant circumstances. The reader had seen the crime committed, knew all about the criminal, and was in possession of all the facts. It would have seemed that there was nothing left to tell. But ... the reader would be so occupied with the crime that he would overlook the evidence."

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THE SINGING BONE

BY

R. AUSTIN FREEMAN

AUTHOR OF
"JOHN THORNDYKE'S CASES," "THE RED THUMB MARK," ETC.

HODDER AND STOUGHTON

LONDON ⁠ NEW YORK ⁠ TORONTO

TO
MY WIFE

Contents edit

Preface
The Case of Oscar Brodski
- I The mechanism of Crime
- II The Mechanism of Detection
A Case of Premeditation
- I The Elimination of Mr. Pratt
- II. Rival Sleuth-Hounds
The Echo of a Mutiny
- I Death on the Girdler
- II 'The Singing Bone'
A Wastrel's Romance
- I The Spinsters' Guest
- II Munera Pulveris
The Old Lag
- I The changed Immutable
- II The Ship of the Desert

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

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