As a Thief in the Night
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| Title: | As a Thief in the Night | ||||||
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| Published: | 1928 | ||||||
| Tags: | crime, detective, fiction, mystery | ||||||
| Description: | As a Thief in the Night is one of Freeman’s novels of crime and mystery. The first story featuring his well-known protagonist Dr. Thorndyke – a medico-legal forensic investigator – was published in 1907, and although Freeman’s early works were seen as simple homages to his contemporary, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he quickly developed his own style: The ‘inverted detective story’, in which the identity of the criminal is shown from the beginning, and the story then describes the detective’s attempt to solve the mystery.Harold Monkhouse is usually such an uncomplaining patient so when his brother Amos calls in one night, what he doesn’t expect is to see him at Death’s door. Suspicions aroused, he demands an urgent second opinion. And when Harold is later found dead from arsenic poisoning, Amos is left in no doubt that foul play is afoot. The inquiry begins and what ensues is a roller coaster ride into crime fiction at its best. | ||||||
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| Pages: | 204 |
Author Bio for Freeman, Richard Austin:
Richard Austin Freeman, (born 1862, London—died Sept. 30, 1943, Gravesend, Kent, Eng.), popular English author of novels and short stories featuring the fictional character John Thorndyke, a pathologist-detective.
Educated as a physician and surgeon, Freeman practiced in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), where he caught a fever. Eventually forced by ill health to retire from practice (1904), he began to write fiction. The Red Thumb Mark (1907) was the first of many works featuring Thorndyke.
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