The Penrose Mystery
Published by Blue Ribbon Books, Inc. / A Burt Book (c.1936), New York, 1936
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA
AbeBooks seller since February 24, 1998
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 25.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
(no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, light external soiling (mostly on spine), very slight fraying at top of spine, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper]. A late-ish entry in the author's "Dr. Thorndyke" series, which commenced in 1907 and lasted until Freeman's death in 1943. In this exploit, the protagonist investigates the mysterious disappearance of an antiques collectors, whose body is eventually discovered in an Indian burial mound. Per Norman Donaldson, writing in Reilly's "Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers," Dr. Thorndyke was "the only convincing scientific investigator of detective fiction, [an achievement that] rests not particularly on the accuracy of the technical details presents -- accurate though they are -- but on the impact of the 'scientific method' as a way of thought brought to bear in convincing fashion on the essentially romantic materials of the detective story." He also provides a further note relative to this title: "'Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes' uses as its basis the real-life Druce-Portland Case of 1907, whereas a fictitious excavation in 'The Penrose Mystery' was instrumental in bringing about a real 'dig' at the same site a little later.".…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Penrose Mystery
- Author
- Freeman, R. Austin
- Publisher
- Blue Ribbon Books, Inc. / A Burt Book (c.1936), New York
- Publication year
- 1936
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Dust Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- Reprint.
ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA
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