- Paperback: 252 pages
- Publisher: Nuvision Publications (June 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1595479899
- ISBN-13: 978-1595479891
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 399 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,141,709 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
This is the tantalizing tale of a missing world-renowned archaeologist that, so far, no one seems to be able to find any clues to. Dr. Thorndyke, our detective, is unusually perceptive and begins to find clues leading to a man with a tattoo of the "Eye of Osiris". Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher.
About the Author
Richard Austin Freeman enjoyed a prolific career that saw him gain qualification as pharmacist and surgeon, pull off a diplomatic coup along the Gold Coast, work for Holloway Prison and become a formidable man of fiction. For the first twenty-five years of his writing career, Freeman was to dominate and remain unrivalled in the world of detective fiction, introducing the well-loved and highly memorable Dr Thorndyke. Through the creation of this character, Richard Austin Freeman continues to be read as an extremely popular addition to the world of the mystery novel.
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2.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
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Good book but the edition is poor quality, Aug 16 2006
By R. Ward - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Eye of Osiris (Paperback)
Nuvision Publications attempt to bring back "formally out of print books" that are still in demand, which is a great mission and one they should persist in. They go to the trouble of scanning the book and running optical character recognition software so that the text looks clean, rather than just photocopying it. Unfortunately, in some ways photocopying can be better; this book contains a number of comments in Greek, which were rendered as %&*#, or once as (Greek). There were also a number of places where the OCR had introduced lines or other errors. One read-through by a copy editor would have made so much difference to my pleasure in the book.It's a good book -- a cosy mystery, well if somewhat fantastically plotted. I'll look for a clean second-hand copy instead.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Wonderful Victorian Forensic Mystery Story, Dec 20 2011
By Thomas A. Johnson - Published on Amazon.com
I found R. Austin Freeman and have been downloading every story or collection of his for my Kindle. Very well written. This one is no exception. He pioneered the mystery novel in which you see the crime committed and the rest of the story is how the investigators go about uncovering how the crime was committed and solving it. Anyway, I enjoyed this very much. I love the Sherlock Holmes stories as well, and find a lot of similarity (use of deduction and scientific testing to solve the crime and convict the criminal). Note, there is some science in these stories, if that scares you, you may want to avoid this. But, it is written so non-technical people can enjoy it too.
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Another wild goose chase, Dec 23 2009
By Homer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Eye of Osiris (Paperback)
Almost immediate at the begining, the author lets Thorndyke declare 'if this gentleman should never reappear, dead or alive, the question as to what was the latest moment at which he was certainly alive will turn upon the further question: "Was he or was he not wearing a particular article of jewellery when he called at the relative's house?"' The reader declares, 'the latest moment at which he was certainly alive will turn upon the further question: "Does the housemaid recognize a picture of the alleged missing gentleman?"' Until the end of the story, the housemaid curiously has never seen such a picture, on newspaper or presented by the investigators. The novelists would say, a good disguise is sufficient. The readers say, not in reality.
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