Author:Richard Austin Freeman

Richard Austin Freeman
(1862–1943)

Works

Works featuring Dr Thorndyke

Novels

• The Red Thumb Mark (1907) (no scan)
• The Eye of Osiris (U.S. title: The Vanishing Man) (1911) Librivox audiobook (external scan)
• The Mystery of 31, New Inn (1912) (illustrated by Edwin J. Prittie) (transcription project)
• A Silent Witness (1914) Librivox audiobook
• Helen Vardon's Confession (1922) Project Gutenberg Australia (external scan)
• The Cat's Eye (1923) (external scan)
• The Mystery of Angelina Frood (1924)
• The Shadow of the Wolf (1925) (external scan)
• The D'Arblay Mystery (1926)
• A Certain Dr. Thorndyke (1927)
• As a Thief in the Night (1928)
• Mr. Pottermack's Oversight (1930)
• Pontifex, Son and Thorndyke (1931)
• When Rogues Fall Out (U.S. title: Dr. Thorndyke's Discovery) (1932)
• Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes (1933)
• For the Defence: Dr. Thorndyke (1934)
• The Penrose Mystery (1936)
• Felo de Se (U.S. title: Death at the Inn) (1937)
• The Stoneware Monkey (1938)
• Mr. Polton Explains (1940)
• The Jacob Street Mystery (U.S. title: The Unconscious Witness) (1942)

Short story collections

• John Thorndyke's Cases (U.S. title: Dr. Thorndyke's Cases) (1909)

The Man with the Nailed Shoes — The Stranger's Latchkey — The Anthropologist at Large — The Blue Sequin — The Moabite Cipher — The Mandarin's Pearl — The Aluminum Dagger — A Message from the Deep Sea

• The Singing Bone (U.S. title: The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke) (1912) ((HathiTrust))

The Case of Oscar Brodski — A Case of Premeditation — The Echo of a Mutiny — A Wastrel's Romance — The Old Lag

• The Blue Scarab (U.K. title: Dr. Thorndyke's Casebook) (1923) (no scan)

The Case of the White Footprints — The Blue Scarab — The New Jersey Sphinx — The Touchstone — A Fisher of Men — The Stolen Ingots — The Funeral Pyre

• The Puzzle Lock (1925)

The Puzzle Lock — The Green Check Jacket — The Seal of Nebuchadnezzar — Phyllis Annesley's Peril — A Sower of Pestilence — Rex v. Burnaby — A Mystery of the Sand-Hills — Apparition of Burling Court — The Mysterious Visitor

• The Magic Casket (1927) (external scan)

The Magic Casket — The Contents of a Mare's Nest — The Stalking Horse — The Naturalist at Law — Mr. Ponting's Alibi — Pandora's Box — The Trail of Behemoth — The Pathologist to the Rescue — Gleanings from the Wreckage

• The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke (U.S. title: The Dr Thorndyke Omnibus) (1928)
• Dr. Thorndyke's Crime File (1941)

Other works

Novels

• The Golden Pool: A Story of a Forgotten Mine (1907) Project Gutenberg Australia
• The Unwilling Adventurer (1913) Project Gutenberg Australia
• The Uttermost Farthing (U.S. title A Savant's Vendetta) Illustrated by H. Weston Taylor. (1913)
• The Exploits of Danby Croker (1916) Project Gutenberg Australia
• The Surprising Experiences of Mr Shuttlebury Cobb (1927) (external scan)

Short story collections

• The Great Portrait Mystery and Other Stories (1918) Project Gutenberg Australia
• Flighty Phyllis (1928)

Non-fiction

• Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jaman (1898) (external scan)
• Social Decay and Regeneration (1921) (external scan)

Individual short stories

• "A Signal Success" from Everybody's Magazine 1900 Nov (ss)
• "The Anthropologist at Large," from McClure's Magazine, May 1910. (Also included in John Thorndyke's Cases, 1909)
• "The Aluminum Dagger," from McClure's Magazine, July 1910. (Also included in John Thorndyke's Cases, 1909)
• "By the Black Deep," from Windsor magazine, 1903. (With Ashdown Piers)
• "The Blue Sequin" from McClure's Magazine, 1910 Feb (ss)
• "A Case of Premeditation," from McClure's Magazine, August 1910. (Also included in The Singing Bone, 1912)
• "The Case of Oscar Brodski," from McClure's Magazine, December 1911. (Also included in The Singing Bone, 1912)
• "A Woman's Vengeance" from Pall Mall Magazine, 1912 Oct (ss)
• "The Bronze Parrot," in the The Times Red Cross Story Book

As Clifford Ashdown

Early in his career Freeman collaborated with friend John James Pitcairn (1860–1936) under the pen name "Clifford Ashdown". Much of their work wasn't released in book form until well after their deaths.

Novels

• The Queen's Treasure (1975)

Short story collections

• The Adventures of Romney Pringle (1902) (no scan)

The Assyrian Rejuvenator — The Foreign Office Despatch — The Chicago Heiress — The Lizard's Scale — The Paste Diamonds — The Kailyard Novel

• The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle (serialized 1903, bound 1969)

The Submarine Boat — The Kimberly Fugitive — The Silkworms of Florence — The Box of Specie — The Silver Ingots — The House of Detention

• From a Surgeon's Diary (serialized 1904–05, bound 1975)

The Adventure at Heath Crest — How I Acted for an Invalid Doctor — How I Attended a Nervous Patient — How I Met a Very Ignorant Practitioner — How I Cured a Hopeless Paralytic — How I Helped to Lay a Ghost

External links

• R. Austin Freeman at Project Gutenberg Australia