Table of Contents

       Introduction:

       SHORT BIOGRAPHY

       THE ART OF THE DETECTIVE STORY

       Dr. Thorndyke Series:

       Introduction

       MEET DR. THORNDYKE

       Novels

       THE RED THUMB MARK

       THE EYE OF OSIRIS (The Vanishing Man)

       THE MYSTERY OF 31 NEW INN

       A SILENT WITNESS

       HELEN VARDON’S CONFESSION

       THE CAT’S EYE

       THE MYSTERY OF ANGELINA FROOD

       THE SHADOW OF THE WOLF

       THE D’ARBLAY MYSTERY

       A CERTAIN DR. THORNDYKE

       AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT

       MR. POTTERMACK’S OVERSIGHT

       PONTIFEX, SON AND THORNDYKE

       WHEN ROGUES FALL OUT (Dr. Thorndyke's Discovery)

       DR. THORNDYKE INTERVENES

       FOR THE DEFENCE: DR. THORNDYKE

       THE PENROSE MYSTERY

       FELO DE SE (Death at the Inn)

       THE STONEWARE MONKEY

       MR. POLTON EXPLAINS

       THE JACOB STREET MYSTERY (The Unconscious Witness)

       Short Stories

       PERCIVAL BLAND’S PROXY

       THE MISSING MORTGAGEE

       DR. THORNDYKE’S CASES

       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 Aluminium Dagger

       A Message From the Deep Sea

       THE ADVENTURES OF DR. THORNDYKE

       The Case of Oscar Brodski

       A Case of Premeditation

       The Echo of a Mutiny

       A Wastrel's Romance

       The Old Lag

       DR. THORNDYKE’S CASEBOOK

       The Case of the White Footprints

       The Blue Scarab

       The New Jersey Sphinx

       The Touchstone