R. Austin Freeman, 1862-1943

Works

The John Thorndyke novels

• The Red Thumb Mark [1907]
• The Eye of Osiris [1911, published in the USA as The Vanishing Man]
• The Eye of Osiris / R. Austin Freeman
• The Vanishing Man / R. Austin Freeman
• The Mystery of 31 New Inn [1912]
• A Silent Witness [1914]
• Helen Vardon's Confession [1922]
• The Cat's Eye [1923]
• The Mystery of Angelina Frood [1924]
• The Shadow of the Wolf [1925]
• The D'Arblay Mystery [1926]
• A Certain Dr Thorndyke [1927]
• As a Thief in the Night [1928]
• Mr. Pottermack's Oversight [1930]
• Dr Thorndyke Investigates [1930]
• Pontifex Son and Thorndyke [1931]
• When Rogues Fall Out [1932, published in the USA as Dr. Thorndyke's Discovery]
• Dr Thorndyke Intervenes [1933]
• For the Defence, Dr. Thorndyke [1934]
• The Penrose Mystery [1936]
• Felo de Se [1937, published in the USA as Death At The Inn]
• The Stoneware Monkey [1938]
• Mr Polton Explains [1940]
• Dr Thorndyke's Crime File [1941]
  including "Meet Dr. Thorndyke" (essay), The Eye of Osiris (novel), "The Art of the Detective Story" (essay), The Mystery of Angelina Frood (novel), "5A King's Bench Walk" (essay), and Mr. Pottermack's Oversight (novel).
• The Jacob Street Mystery [1942], published in the USA as The Unconscious Witness

Short-story collections

• John Thorndyke's Cases : related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman [1909, published in the United States as Dr. Thorndyke's Cases]
• The Singing Bone [1912, published in the United States as The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke].
• Dr. Thorndyke's Casebook [1923) (published in the United States as The Blue Scarab]
• The Puzzle Lock [1925]
• The Magic Casket [1927]
• The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke [1928, published in the USA as The Dr. Thorndyke Omnibus]

Short stories

• The Case of Oscar Brodski
• A Case of Premeditation
• The Echo of a Mutiny
• A Wastrel's Romance
• The Missing Mortgagee
• Percival Bland's Proxy
• The Old Lag
• The Stranger's Latchkey
• The Anthropologist at Large
• The Blue Sequin
• The Moabite Cipher
• The Mandarin's Pearl [omitted from British edition]
• The Aluminium Dagger
• The Magic Casket
• The Contents of a Mare's Nest
• The Stalking Horse
• The Naturalist at Law
• Mr. Ponting's Alibi
• Pandora's Box
• The Trail of Behemoth
• The Pathologist to the Rescue
• Gleanings from the Wreckage
• The Puzzle Lock
• The Green Check Jacket
• The Seal of Nebuchadnezzar
• Phyllis Annesley's Peril
• A Sower of Pestilence
• Rex v. Burnaby
• A Mystery of the Sand-hills
• The Apparition of Burling Court
• The Mysterious Visitor
• The Case of the White Footprints
• The Blue Scarab
• The New Jersey Sphinx
• The Touchstone
• A Fisher of Men
• The Stolen Ingots
• The Funeral Pyre
• The Man with the Nailed Shoes [omitted from both omnibus editions]
• A Message from the Deep Sea [omitted from both omnibus editions]
• 31, New Inn [1905 or 1911, later completely rewritten as the novel, The Mystery of 31 New Inn]
• The Dead Hand [1912, later developed into the novel The Shadow of the Wolf.]

Other novels and collections

• The Golden Pool: A Story of a Forgotten Mine [1905]
• The Unwilling Adventurer [1913]
• The Uttermost Farthing [1914 in the USA, only; first British publication, 1920, as "A Savant's Vendetta"]
• The Uttermost Farthing : A Savant's Vendetta / R. Austin Freeman
• The Exploits of Danby Croker [1916]
• The Great Portrait Mystery and other stories [1918]
• The Surprising Experiences of Mr Shuttlebury Cobb [1927]
• Flighty Phyllis [1928]

As Clifford Ashdown, with John Pitcairn

• The Adventures of Romney Pringle [1902]
• The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle [1903 in Cassell's Magazine]
• From a Surgeon's Diary [1904-5 in Cassell's Magazine]
• The Queen's Treasure [written around 1905/6, but not published until 1975]
• The Silks of Florence
• The Assyrian Rejuvenator
• The Submarine Boat

Non-fiction

• Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jaman [1898]
• Social Decay and Regeneration [1921, with an introduction by Havelock Ellis]