Overview :The "urgent call"-the instant, peremptory summons to professional duty-is an experience that appertains to the medical rather than the legal... Read More
Overview :Events of the 1970s and 1980s have provoked intense controversy about the desirability of existing political and economic institutions. On t... Read More
Overview :There are, I suppose, few places even on the East Coast of England more lonely and remote than the village of Little Sundersley and the coun... Read More
Overview :Dr. Richard Austin Freeman MRCS LSA (11 April 1862 - 28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medi... Read More
Overview :Young Helen Vardon contracts marriage with a man many years her senior in the mistaken believe that it was the only way to prevent her fathe... Read More
Overview :Before "Bones," before "CSI," before "Quincy, M.E." there was Dr. John Thorndyke. In The Eye of Osiris, John Bellingham, noted Egyptologist ... Read More
Overview :Mr. Pottermack had thought of everything. He had disposed of the body in a place where no one would ever find it. He carefully, and ingeniou... Read More
Overview :Daniel Penrose, an eccentric collector of antiquities and jewelry has gone missing. The police position is that he is on the run because of ... Read More
Overview :Two distinct and separate crimes, the murder of a police constable in pursuit of a burglar who had just stolen some ten thousand pounds wort... Read More
Overview :On The Safeguarding Of Life In Theaters: Being A Study From The Standpoint Of An Engineer is a book written by John R. Freeman in 1906. The ... Read More
Overview :When you first meet Captain Charles R. MacVean, you are invariably greeted with a gentle smile and words of welcome. There's no swagger, hin... Read More
Overview :The final volume of the doctor detective's incredible case bookDr. John Evelyn Thorndyke was the principal character in a huge collection of... Read More
Overview :A second outing for Dr. Thorndyke in this three volume setDr. John Evelyn Thorndyke was the principal character in a huge collection of dete... Read More
Overview :The first of three volumes of tales of crime and deductionDr. John Evelyn Thorndyke was the principal character in a huge collection of dete... Read More
Overview :Volume II contains roughly the first half of the Thorndyke Short Stories. In all, there are over forty Thorndyke short stories, spread over ... Read More
Overview :When young Dr. Jardine discovers a dead body he promptly reports it to the police, only to find the body gone when they investigate. Later, ... Read More