A review by nicklai
The Best Dr. Thorndyke Detective Stories by R. Austin Freeman

5.0

Paradoxically, most detective stories are not stories of logic. We like to think of them that way, but under an honest eye, even the most famous plots liberally trade sense for entertainment. Dr. Thorndyke stories make no such compromises. Freeman sets a fair contest with the reader, laying out the facts of the cases plainly and without cheap deception, challenging us to examine his every word with the same attention that Thorndyke gives to fibers of lint and shards of broken glass.