The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke

By: R. Austin Freeman

Narrated by: Graham Scott

The Adventures of Dr Thorndyke
By R. Austin Freeman
Narrated by Graham Scott

"[T]he longer I practise, the more I become convinced that the microscope is the sheet-anchor of the medical jurist."

So declares "scientific investigator", Dr John Thorndyke, as he interprets the clues found in the likes of bloodstains, dust, ash, hairs and fibres, and broken glass, to evolve "an ordered train of evidence from a mass of facts apparently incoherent and unrelated," leading to the solution of the mystery...

This book contains five tales of intrigue, murder, mutiny, pathos, and romance - including four in Freeman's then revolutionary "inverted detective story" format.

Public Domain (P)2019 Voices of Today

Great listening.

RAF created the first CSI-type detective. In fact Dr Thorndike would have been very at home in that tv series. Written in 1912 these short stories have aged incredibly well and are extremely interesting and very entertaining. I’m onto another collection!

more cold-blooded than usual

I always love Dr Thorndike but in this particular set of stories Freeman takes the reader into the mind of the criminal as they commit their often bloody murders. I prefer to be brought in after the fact as he more often does, leaving the discovery to unravel in his usual gentlemanly way.