This Halcyon Classics ebook contains twenty-eight detective novels and short stories by British writer R. Austin Freeman. These include twenty-one Dr. Thorndyke works and seven other mysteries by Freeman. Dr. Thorndyke was a prototypical forensic scientist who used minute bits of evidence to solve his cases. His solutions were based on his method of collecting all possible data (including dust and pond weed) and making inferences from them before looking at any of the protagonists and motives in the crimes. A large proportion of the Dr Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology. A large proportion of the Dr Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge. This ebook includes and active table of contents for easy navigation. Dr. Thorndyke Novels: The Red Thumb Mark The Eye of Osiris The Mystery of 31 New Inn A Silent Witness Helen Vardon’s Confessions When Rogues Fall Out The Jacob Street Mystery Dr. Thorndyke Short Stories: The Case of the White Footprints The Man with the Nailed Shoes The Stranger's Latchkey The Anthropologist at Large The Blue Sequin The Moabite Cipher The Mandarin's Pearl The Aluminium Dagger A Message from the Deep Sea The Case of Oscar Brodski A Case of Premeditation The Echo of A Mutiny A Wastrel's Romance The Old Lag Other Works: The Great Portrait Mystery The Uttermost Farthing A Mystery of the Sand-Hills The Kimberley Fugitive The Mysterious Visitor The Silkworms of Florence The Submarine Boat