DR. THORNDYKE COLLECTION VOL. 2. 3 BOOKS: John Thorndyke's Cases the Singing

This volume contains 14 short stories, included in the first two short story collections published by Freeman; as well as one full-length novel. They all feature the best medico-legal forensic investigator ever to exist in fiction: Dr.Thorndyke.Written by R.Austin Freeman, creator of 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.The novels included are:John Thorndyke's Cases The Singing Bone Helen Vardon's Confession