Austin Freeman: 159 books

Book cover of As a Thief in the Night
by R. Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015

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...
Book cover of Death at the Inn
by R. Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017

John Gillum arrives in London from Australia apparently a wealthy man and then proceeds to cheerfully gamble his entire fortune away. During this period he cultivates the friendship of Mortimer, the bank official after meeting him at the scene of a murder near the bank. He mentions in conversation...
Book cover of Mr Polton Explains
by R. Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012

Told through the eyes of a watchmaker, Dr Thorndyke is once again faced with a nettly mystery involving a mysterious fire in a Soho house filled with supposedly inflammable objects. What transpires is an entertaining and amazing twist thanks to the eagle eyes of the Doctor and his friend the watchmaker, Mr Polton.
Book cover of The Jacob Street Mystery
by R. Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012

A peaceful, pleasant afternoon in the woodland scene of Linton Green is disturbed when a brutal murder takes place. But thanks to an unseen witness, the killer may be caught, and the witness turns out to be a blessing in disguise. This is the story of Thomas Pedley, a gifted artist who paints what he sees from memory.
Book cover of Mr. Pottermack's Oversight
by R. Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019

In this novel, the sympathetic, engaging and enterprising Mr. Pottermack commits the perfect crime, only to discover that a perfect crime is the last thing in the world he wants. Enter the legendary Dr John Thorndyke, physician and lawyer, the dean of scientific detection, who seems to know far too much about what Mr. Pottermack did on a night when there was nobody around to see him.
Book cover of Felo De Se
by R. Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012

John Gillam was a gambler. He faced financial ruin and was the victim of a sinister blackmail attempt. He is now dead. In this exceptional mystery, Dr Thorndyke is brought in to untangle the secrecy surrounding the death of John Gillam, a man not known for insanity and thoughts of suicide.
Book cover of The Cat's Eye
by R. Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012

When Andrew Drayton, a collector of jewellery, is found stabbed to death and the young woman who tried to stop the murderer is wounded, Dr Thorndyke is called in to investigate. But although the scene of the crime seems awash with the fingerprints of the attacker, there may be good reason why the...
Book cover of Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes
by R. Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017

This is a delightful Thorndyke mystery full of suspicious happenings, like the ugly human head found in a box checked at a railway station cloakroom. Other peculiar things are afoot too. A rich American gentleman has come to London to make a claim for an earldom, based on some far-fetched „evidence.”...
Book cover of The Magic Casket
by R. Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012

On a misty November night in London, Dr Thorndyke comes across an abandoned handbag in an old church. From examining the contents an address is found and so begins a mysterious trail leading to the owner and a violent murder. Enter into the world of ‘Mr Ponting’s Alibi’ where threats are made...
Book cover of As A Thief In The Night
by R. Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012

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...
Book cover of Mr Pottermack's Oversight
by R. Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012

Mr Pottermack is a law abiding, settled, homebody who has nothing to hide until the appearance of the shadowy Lewison, a gambler and blackmailer with an incredible story. It appears that Pottermack is in fact a runaway prisoner, convicted of fraud and Lewison is about to spill the beans, unless he...
Book cover of Helen Vardon's Confession
by R Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013

Prologue To every woman there comes a day (and that all too soon) when she receives the first hint that Time, the harvester, has not passed her by unnoticed. The waning of actual youth may have passed with but the faintest regret, if any; regret for the lost bud being merged in the triumph...
Book cover of The Uttermost Farthing: A Savant's Vendetta
by Richard Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

It is not without some misgivings that I at length make public the strange history communicated to me by my lamented friend Humphrey Challoner. The outlook of the narrator is so evidently abnormal, his ethical standards are so remote from those ordinarily current, that the chronicle of his life and...
Book cover of Death at the Inn
by R. Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017

John Gillum arrives in London from Australia apparently a wealthy man and then proceeds to cheerfully gamble his entire fortune away. During this period he cultivates the friendship of Mortimer, the bank official after meeting him at the scene of a murder near the bank. He mentions in conversation that he felt suicide was a very understandable option to someone who had lost everything...
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