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This all left me unable to see past
A most strangely set out book as more the outset half is a Robinson Crusoe blazon of tale as James Osmond changes his proper noun and flees for his home in England alighting on the African declension at a remote trading post. Lots of death and adventures into the jungle and he falls in dearest. A good enough "Boys own" tale in itself. Then, tacked on the terminate there is an investigation into an apparent robbery by the Medico turned lawyer and forensic scientist Dr. Thorndyke.This all left me unable to see by two separate stories and the 2 together became disjointed. The writing is an older manner and at times quite difficult to follow. I thought 3 stars but moved back to two just.
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We begin on the West Coast of Africa, following John Walker, aka John Osmond, on the run from Scotland Yard for a jewel robbery. Then he -- takes over a British colonial general store, buries its manager (who'southward died from blackness water fever), eludes the colonial police, overcomes a transport-board wildcat, falls in dearest with the female person rider, refuses mega-payment from the helm for 'simply doing his job', refuses (for honorable reasons) to ally his fifty
An unusually styled detective story.***SPOILER***
We begin on the West Coast of Africa, post-obit John Walker, aka John Osmond, on the run from Scotland Yard for a jewel robbery. And so he -- takes over a British colonial general shop, buries its manager (who's died from black water fever), eludes the colonial law, overcomes a send-board mutiny, falls in honey with the female person passenger, refuses mega-payment from the captain for 'only doing his job', refuses (for honorable reasons) to ally his lady-love, helps the British colonial police, inherits a modest fortune when the mutinied ship's captain dies, and discovers (through an one-time newspaper) that his innocence in the robbery has been publicly announced and he tin can render to England.
That's the first one-half of the book.
(And when written down like this, information technology sounds a lot more boring than it reads. lol)
The 2d half returns to the discovery of the jewel robbery, when the legal firm involved brings in college counsel. This college counsel insists on hiring Dr. Thorndyke, a lawyer-turned-Sherlock-Holmes, and we follow his precise, methodical investigations every bit he uncovers the true thief, and thereby immigration John Osmond (which we knew already). The second mystery -- why Osmond went on the lam for a law-breaking he didn't commit -- is told in the concluding chapter.
Once Thorndyke starts to investigate, the reader spots the criminal pretty quickly, and at about the same time realizes Osmond's motive to leave England, simply that doesn't detract from enjoying the read.
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I first heard of the detective Dr. Thorndyke in Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime with Tommy and Tuppence, when they were imitating unlike detective styles -- and at present I've read a real Thorndyke story. Fun! Also, the most separate story-lines are reminiscent of the Holmes novellas 'The Valley of Fear' and 'The Sign of Four'; if you don't heed how they're constructed, I don't think you'll have a hard time with this book.
Final notes: my copy is a Hodder & Stoughton edition from the 1930s (I'm thinking they were a reprint visitor similar to Grosset & Dunlap in the Usa), and, very faintly printed on the first wing-leaf is the name and address of a book-seller/stationer's located in Singapore!
I'm imagining ...
... The days are hot and humid in pre-WWII Prc. A well-dressed lady (looking remarkably similar Bette Davis in THE Letter of the alphabet) spends a week or 2 abroad from her husband'south rubber-tree plantation on a trip into town. While shopping one 24-hour interval, she steps into her favorite stationer'southward and picks up a volume, hoping to wile away an evening or 2 ....
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This was a very unexpected read. I remember one of the previous novels starting out in third person and describing the events of the crime so the reader could amend follow Thorndyke in his process. This one took that a step farther, devoting one-half the book to the suspected criminal, and one-half to Thorndyke solving the crime. Y'all never learn what Osmand actually did for a crime in his one-half of the book, merely that he ran abroad from something and how he ends upwards avoiding beingness chased and abort
3.five starsThis was a very unexpected read. I remember i of the previous novels starting out in third person and describing the events of the offense then the reader could improve follow Thorndyke in his procedure. This one took that a footstep farther, devoting half the volume to the suspected criminal, and half to Thorndyke solving the criminal offence. You never learn what Osmand actually did for a crime in his half of the book, but that he ran away from something and how he ends up avoiding being chased and arrested for it. A lot of it went over my head because it happened on a boat; so parts of the send and the slang were meaningless for me. (view spoiler)[At the very cease of the second half, the reader is brought the fact that Thorndyke is the reason Osmond was institute to be innocent. Which then kicks off the 2d half. (hide spoiler)] The second half doesn't bring up Osmand until the very cease, and the reader is let in on about 75% of Thorndyke'south thought processes. I thought this made the summary at the stop redundant initially, but there are some things that Freeman didn't put in, requiring Thorndyke to further explain them. A very interesting format since it didn't focus on the actual crime itself in whatsoever fashion.
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This one has been dissever into two carve up stories. The get-go role of the book is about Jack Osmond, who has fled England for some, every bit of still, unknown reason. Information technology chronicles his time in West Africa, which is his chosen place of hiding.
The second office of the book is nearly Thorndyke and his being chosen upon to solve a puzzling crime. A criminal offense that, on the confront of it, come across
Just finished this Thorndyke book. I was kind of thrown for a loop at first considering it didn't offset off like the others I've read.This one has been split into ii separate stories. The start part of the book is about Jack Osmond, who has fled England for some, as of yet, unknown reason. It chronicles his time in West Africa, which is his called place of hiding.
The second part of the book is most Thorndyke and his being chosen upon to solve a puzzling crime. A crime that, on the face of it, seems to have been impossible to reach.
Through Thorndyke's scientific endeavors, the 2 stories become joined.
I liked this arrangement of the story. Information technology was nice to accept more back story of the person accused of the crime. I also liked the fact that you didn't know at all what it was that Osmond was accused of doing. That made me want to continue reading the story all the more than because I merely HAD to know!
I know these onetime detective novels aren't for everyone, and I really didn't think they'd appeal to me either. I'm glad I took the risk and downloaded the showtime Thorndyke novel (how could I turn down costless, right!?). If you've never read one, try it. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised- merely like I was.
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This is probably the all-time volume of the first fourteen of the series. As Freeman is want to exercise he has created a different style for this novel. The book is presented in 2 sections, the first is about the principle character and how he ended upward in Africa in an isolated hamlet on the Bight of Republic of benin. (The title of the book has null to do with the story.) While there his companion dies and he takes on the other's life and name. He meets a woman, falls in love and determines to head dwelling.The crime that Osmund, the protagonist, is accused of turns out to be specious. Later stopping a wildcat on a coastal schooner, he returns to the Hamlet. A local align has come to arrest him, but seeing that he has "died" reports so to England. When the Helm of the mutinied transport dies he leaves Osmund a fortune. Now freed from the criminal offence (and independently wealthy) he thought was hanging over his head, he decided to go back to England. What he didn't know was that he had been found innocent of the criminal offense as the result of an inquiry by Dr Thorndyke.
Using scientific method and an investigation that was detailed and based on looking at the minutia of the supposed theft, Thorndyke was able to find what had happened and brought the actual thief to justice. One time once again Thorndyke is able to prove that just because everyone makes a decision based on coincidental data, he e'er looks for the bodily 'habeus corpus' information.
(This would have been a five star book except that Freeman took the easy way out near to the end of the story by using a 'mcguffin' to testify his bespeak.)
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The first Part is more of a adventure story while the second one-half is an enjoyable historical mystery.
Originally published in 1920 John Osmond has escaped from England as there is a warrant for his arrest. We read tales of his adventures in Africa in Part 1. Meanwhile Dr. Thorndyke has been employed to show Osmond's guilt.
The first Part is more of a adventure story while the 2d half is an enjoyable historical mystery.
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Okay story simply the pace is slow and it feels more similar two dissimilar books instead of one book in two parts.
He became a medical trainee at Middlesex Hospital Medical College and was accustomed as a fellow member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
He married Annie Elizabeth Edwards in 1887 and they had ii sons and aft
Richard Freeman was born in Soho, London on xi Apr 1862 and was the son of Ann Maria (nee Dunn) and Richard Freeman, a tailor. He was originally named Richard and later added the Austin to his proper noun.He became a medical trainee at Middlesex Infirmary Medical College and was accepted every bit a member of the Imperial Higher of Surgeons.
He married Annie Elizabeth Edwards in 1887 and they had two sons and after a few weeks of married life the couple found themselves in Accra on the Aureate Coast where he was assistant surgeon. His time in Africa produced plenty of hard work, very little money and ill health, so much and so that after seven years he was invalided out of the service in 1891. He wrote his first book, 'Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jaman', which was published in 1898. It was critically acclaimed but made very little coin.
On his return to England he prepare up an eye/ear/nose/pharynx pactice simply in due course his health forced him to surrender medicine although he did have occasional temporary posts and in Globe War I he was in the ambulance corps.
He became a author of detective stories, generally featuring the dr.-legal forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke. The outset of the books in the series was 'The Scarlet Pollex Mark' (1907). His beginning published offense novel was 'The Adventures of Romney Pringle' (1902) and was a collaborative effort published nether the pseudonym Clifford Ashdown. Inside a few years he was devoting his time to full-fourth dimension writing.
With the publication of 'The Singing Bone' (1912) hee invented the inverted detective story (a law-breaking fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the start, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story and then describing the detective'due south attempt to solve the mystery). Thereafter he used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels.
A big proportion of the Dr Thorndyke stories involve 18-carat, but often quite cabalistic, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology.
He died in Gravesend on 28 September 1943.
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