John Thorndyke's Cases

Eight curious cases each more peculiar than the preceding one but in no way less absorbing has been arranged in this compilation according to

• 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

With precise methods and an eye towards detail, the forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke solves cases that baffles the ordinary minds. Criminals are never spared and the innocent are saved as Thorndyke produces evidence that leads to the ultimate truth. Told from Dr. Jervis' perspective, the short stories are made even more realistic by H.M. Brock's fantastic drawings that breathes life to the story. But the most important facet of the writing is that, though categorised under mystery fictions, but attention is given to the way the evidences are collected and the truth is obtained. Thus analytical aspect of the stories make them league apart from ordinary medical mystery novels. The philosophy of Dr. Thorndyke, not only on the importance of evidence, but also on the way it is being sampled remains a guideline for the analytic mind. Each story, albeit a fiction, is both entertaining and intellectually satisfying.