The Moabite Cipher
Dr Thorndyke
It begins in a crowd on Oxford Street, waiting for one of those processions that benevolent institutions periodically inflict upon London traffic. A man dies in the press of people.
by R. Austin Freeman
59 minNo. 251
Dr Thorndyke
A doctor and a barrister who solves cases at the laboratory bench, reading dust, pond weed and a smear of paint where others read motive. The first detective to work the way a forensic scientist actually works.
4 stories · every one free to listen to
The Aluminium Dagger
Dr Thorndyke
A bell rings in the small hours, and Dr Jervis finds himself doing the one thing he thought he had left behind when he gave up medicine for the law: answering an urgent summons in the dark.
by R. Austin Freeman
1 hr 5 minNo. 242
The Anthropologist at Large
Dr Thorndyke
More from the detective who joined the Archive last night: Dr. John Thorndyke, created by R. Austin Freeman in 1909 — a medical man and a barrister, and the first true forensic scientist in detective fiction.
by R. Austin Freeman
48 minNo. 233
The Blue Sequin
Dr Thorndyke
Tonight the Archive opens on a detective it has never opened before — and one who changed crime fiction more than almost anyone who came after Sherlock Holmes. Dr. John Thorndyke, created by R.
by R. Austin Freeman
43 minNo. 232