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By the way - I've just posted the complete "Dr Thorndyke" short stories of R. Austin Freeman. This is an author I've only recently discovered, and I'm completely "hooked". Dr Thorndyke is a "forensic investigator", and one of the first "scientific" detectives, and he features in numerous novels and short stories. I'll do some collections of the novels over the next few days.
Freeman invented the "inverted" detective story, where the reader knows all the details of the crime from the beginning, and the story concerns the progress of the detective in piecing together the crime from the evidence (yes, exactly the "Columbo"!). Not all his books are of this type, but those that are are a refreshing change from the conventional "whodunnit".
It's so fantastic to come across a new author who "hooks" you, and Freeman was extremely prolific. Lots of great stuff to come!
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