John Thorndyke's Cases by R. Austin Freeman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

1 - The Man with the Nailed Shoes
Dr Jervis is staying at the seaside village of Little Sundersley, when Dr. Thorndyke comes for a visit. A walk along the beach reveal various footprints and later a dead man. Thorndyke acts in the defence of the accused.
2 - The Stranger's Latchkey
Dr Jervis is staying at The Larches, Burling, at the practice of Dr Hanshaw while he takes a holiday. Apart from Mrs Hanshaw, there is Dr Hanshaw's sister, Mrs Halden. Her son Fred, niece by marriage Miss Lucy Hamden, and expected is her fiance Douglas Winter. Thorndyke is called in to find a missing person.
3 - The Anthropologist at Large
After a burglary the only clue is a retrieved hat. Can Dr Thorndyke solve the case with just this one clue.
4 - The Blue Sequin
Artist model Edith Grant has been discovered dead on a train. Last seen with her, painter Harold Stopford has been arrested.
Quite an implausible cause of death
5 - The Moabite Cipher
Spectators lie the route to watch the arrival of a Russian Grand Duke. When one is killed. A letter, a crytogram is discovered in the dead man. What does the cipher say. Dr Thorndyke investigates.
6 - The Mandarin's Pearl
Solicitor Mr Brodribb has a client, Fred Calverley, who seems to be suffering from delusions. Is there a connection to a recent purchase of jewellery.
Dr Thorndyke investigates.
7 - The Aluminium Dagger
Henry Curtis needs the services of Dr Thorndyke as his brother-in-law, Alfred Hartridge has been murdered. Stabbed with an aluminum dagger in a locked room.
8 - A Message from the Deep Sea
Dr Hart asks that Dr Thorndyke attend to a crime scene. The victim ia a young female called Ninja Adler.
A collection of interesting mysteries, with my favourite being The Mandarin's Pearl, but there is no character development of Thorndyke.


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