The Vanishing Man: A Detective Romance
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About This Book
At the turn of the 20th century, Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) emerged as an author to be reckoned with in the world of detective fiction. He introduced the highly memorable scientific detective Dr. Thorndyke, an early forensic sleuth. Armed with his little green case full of scientific detection aids, Thorndyke unravelled murders and mysteries using logic and material evidence. Freeman’s most important pre-World War I novels The Mystery of 31 New Inn (1911), The Eye of Osiris (1911), and A Silent Witness (1914), artistically written and memorably characterized. Later major works include ...
Chapters (43)
- THE VANISHING MAN
- TO MY FRIEND A.E.B.
- CONTENTS CHAPTER
- CHAPTER I
- THE VANISHING MAN
- CHAPTER II
- THE EAVESDROPPER
- CHAPTER III
- JOHN THORNDYKE
- CHAPTER IV
- LEGAL COMPLICATIONS AND A JACKAL
- CHAPTER V
- THE WATERCRESS-BED
- CHAPTER VI
- SIDELIGHTS
- CHAPTER VII
- JOHN BELLINGHAM'S WILL
- CHAPTER VIII
- A MUSEUM IDYLL
- CHAPTER IX
- THE SPHINX OF LINCOLN'S INN
- CHAPTER X
- THE NEW ALLIANCE
- CHAPTER XI
- THE EVIDENCE REVIEWED
- CHAPTER XII
- A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
- CHAPTER XIII
- THE CROWNER'S QUEST
- CHAPTER XIV
- WHICH CARRIES THE READER INTO THE PROBATE COURT
- CHAPTER XV
- CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
- CHAPTER XVI
- "O! ARTEMIDORUS, FAREWELL!"
- CHAPTER XVII
- THE ACCUSING FINGER
- CHAPTER XVIII
- JOHN BELLINGHAM
- CHAPTER XIX
- A STRANGE SYMPOSIUM
- CHAPTER XX
- THE END OF THE CASE
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