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A plethora of clues baffle the reader in this Conan Doyle-style mystery of a medical lawyer intrigued by a young woman's odd marriage and disappearance. Freeman's other works include The Singing Bone, The Red Thumb Mark, and The Fye of Osiris.
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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.