The Uttermost Farthing - Brossura

Freeman, R. Austin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1598187104 ISBN 13: 9781598187106

Casa editrice: Aegypan, 2005

Riassunto

Humphrey Challoner was a great savant spoiled by untimely wealth. When I knew him he had lapsed into a mere dilettante; at least, so I thought at the time, though subsequent revelations showed him in a rather different light. He had some reputation as a criminal anthropologist and had formerly been well known as a comparative anatomist, but when I made his acquaintance he seemed to be occupied chiefly in making endless additions to the specimens in his private museum. This collection I could never quite understand. It consisted chiefly of human and other mammalian skeletons, all of which presented certain small deviations from the normal; but its object I could never make out -- until after his death; and then, indeed, the revelation was a truly astounding one. . . .

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L'autore

Richard Austin Freeman (1862 - 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's attempt to solve the mystery). Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Aegypan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1598187104
• ISBN 13: 9781598187106
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 120
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