Condition: VG Usual browning to the end-papers with boards bright and attractive and strong hinges externally this is a a bright and attractive. The corners and spine ends very lightly bumped and the cloth a touch rubbed, spine darkened, With light offsetting to the endpapers. A clean and tight copy overall. Light foxing to half title page. Page edges browned.

The short stories revolves around a robbery of valuable artworks.) Freeman noted in his article "The Art of the Detective Story" that murder is so popular a choice because it helps justify a villain desperate to cover his tracks given the consequences if he is caught. introducing 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.

This collection includes seven of Thorndyke's most puzzling stories,

"The Man with the Nailed Shoes,"

"The Stranger's Latchkey,"

"The Anthropologist at Large,"

"The Blue Sequin,"

"The Moabite Cipher,"

"The Mandarin Pearl,"

"The Aluminium Dagger,"

"A Message from the Deep Sea,"