Dr.
Polton Explains in a bomb shelter in 1939 at the age of 77..
He continued writing up until his death, writing parts of Mr.
He served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corp during World War I.
Thorndyke novel The Red Thumb Mark was published.
In 1907 the first Dr.
John James Pitcairn, the medical officer at Holloway Prison, using the pen name Clifford Ashdown.
His first stories were written in collaboration with Dr.
Unable to find a permanent medical position, he decided to try his hand at writing fiction.
During his time in Africa he contracted blackwater fever which forced him to return to London.
He was assigned to a post in Accra on the Gold Coast of Africa.
He studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital and then entered the Colonial Service.
Thorndyke Intervenes! About author(s): Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was born in London.
Dr. . .
The crooks involved are unusually clever, but as usual, justice is served when .
The good doctor must solve these seemingly unrelated cases using his usual bag of forensic tricks and a few new ones for good measure.
John Thorndyke, the renowned expert in medical jurisprudence and forensic investigation faces not one, but three mysteries: the claim of a rich American to an English title and estates, the theft of a small fortune in platinum, and most puzzling of all, the strange head found in a box in the baggage room of a railway station.
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