It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Books you can read & download for free right now – The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke
R. Austin Freeman was a member of The Detection Club and he is known for the invention of the inverted mystery, where the reader gets from the beginning the description of the crime and/or the perpetrator, but still wants to read the story to know how or why it was done.
I’m suggesting The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke, a collection of short stories with a preface where Freeman explains how he came to write this type of mystery. Dr. Thorndyke, Freeman’s detective, is a medical doctor, like its creator, turned forensic scientist, so if you like mysteries with scientific know-how, this is also a good choice.
So, this weekend give yourself some “me time” with no worries, nor rushes, get a cup of tea (or coffee, by all means) and curl up with these (kind of different) mystery stories, because you really deserve it.
You can download the book at Project Gutenberg, there are several formats you can choose to read on your mobile, computer, ereader, you can even read the book on your browser.
(I may be making this “It’s Weekend, Let’s Read” a kind of habit, let me know in the comments if it’s something you’re finding interesting).