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_aFreeman, R. Austin _q(Richard Austin), _d1862-1943 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe blue scarab |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-05-19 | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aThe blue scarab -- The case of the white foot-prints -- The New Jersey sphinx -- The touchstone -- A fisher of men -- The stolen ingots -- The funeral pyre. | |
| 508 | _aan anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer | ||
| 520 | _aThe blue scarab by R. Austin Freeman is a collection of detective stories written in the early 20th century. The cases follow the medico-legal sleuth Dr. John Thorndyke and his colleague-narrator Dr. Jervis as they solve curious crimes with forensic science, precise observation, and ingenious reasoning. Expect rational puzzles tinged with antiquarian lore, family secrets, and cryptic clues. The opening of this collection presents two cases. First, a rural robbery draws Thorndyke into the Blowgrave family’s legend of a vanished uncle and lost jewels: a deed-box is stolen during a decoy fire, its contents mysteriously returned except for a blue scarab; using the scarab’s “hieroglyphs,” Thorndyke deciphers English directions, corrects for compass variation, and locates a buried skeleton and a chest of gems, while unmasking a grasping cousin as the thief via typewriter and fingerprint clues. Next, an apparent suicide at a Margate boarding house turns suspicious when Jervis and a local doctor find white paint footprints of a barefoot intruder with no little toes and signs of entry by a stack-pipe; Jervis reasons toward a northern, possibly seafaring suspect (frost-bite or ergot past), with a Swedish visitor and the absent colonial-police husband as potential leads. After a tussle with the police over evidence, Jervis brings his photographs and deductions to London, where he and Thorndyke prepare a fuller, independent investigation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924 |
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| 653 | _aLondon (England) -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aThorndyke, Doctor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aPhysicians -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aDetective and mystery stories, English | ||
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101864207 | |
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