R. Austin Freeman

The Cat's Eye (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Narrated by Robert Anstey, who is acting as Thorndyke's counsel as Jervis is away in America. He walks right into a murder scene, attracted by the screams of a beautiful young woman. The dead man is a harmless old bachelor who collects objects of arcane appeal. Several pieces of inscribed jewelry are missing. It's a strange sort of burglary perpetrated by clumsy amateurs - who nonetheless got clean away. Dr. Thorndyke takes on the case and enlists Anstey as his sidekick. Anstey makes a perfect foil for the great forensics expert, since he misses the significance of everything. There is murder, love, and a form of code to be deciphered to prove an inheritance. The plot, which is ingenious and complex, includes a contested inheritance with a fascinating history. And the reader is treated to plenty of scientific and analytic exploits by Dr. Thorndyke. We watch him test for poison; take impressions of fingerprints, handprints and footprints; detect secret chambers; and interpret coded messages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ktoczyta.pl
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Altersempfehlung: ab 6 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788381154123
• Artikelnr.: 48947242

Autorenporträt

Richard Austin Freeman (1862 - 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's attempt to solve the mystery). Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels.