A MASTER SLEUTH.
There are times when Dr Thorndyke rises before me as the only rival Sherlock Holmes ever had in the field of detection. Lacking the picturesque gauntness, and melancholy of Holmes, Thorndyke was slightly overshadowed by Conan Doyle's figure, but Freeman made up ground in the manipulation of science in a manner which anticipated the methods employed to-day. Rereading Thorndyke one is struck by the fact that he was in the van of scientific crime detection and that the details of his cases are miles ahead of the bulk of the new detective stuff pushed on to the market nowadays. Freeman tells a logical story, so that the reader can go back and marvel how he missed the vital points which Thorndyke saw. Those who have no previous acquaintance with this master sleuth should not wait. “Dr Thorndyke’s Case Book” affords an opportunity which should not be missed. “Dr Thorndyke’s Case Book” by R. Austin Freeman, published by Messrs Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., London, whence came my copy.
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Southland Times, Issue 21662, 26 March 1932, Page 11
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170A MASTER SLEUTH. Southland Times, Issue 21662, 26 March 1932, Page 11
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