A Silent Witness
Written by R. Austin Freeman
Narrated by Anna Simon
4/5
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About this audiobook
In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the night. However, when he returns to the spot with a police officer, the corpse has disappeared. And this is just the start of a series of strange and sometimes life threatening events.
Had it really been a dead man he had seen? And if so, who was it? And what is the role of the mysterious Mrs. Samway, who keeps popping up wherever he goes? He will need the help of Dr. John Thorndyke to solve this mystery.
This is the fourth novel featuring R. Austin Freemans famous detective Dr. John Thorndyke. The preceding ones are also available on Librivox: The Red Thumb Mark, The Eye of Osiris (a.k.a. The Vanishing Man , both titles on LV) and The Mystery of 31 New Inn.
Summary by Anna Simon
R. Austin Freeman
R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943) was a British author of detective stories. A pioneer of the inverted detective story, in which the reader knows from the start who committed the crime, Freeman is best known as the creator of the “medical jurispractitioner” Dr. John Thorndyke. First introduced in The Red Thumb Mark (1907), the brilliant forensic investigator went on to star in dozens of novels and short stories over the next decades.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not a bad book. It has mystery and crime, love and romance, and a definite slant towards forensics. I saw the solution to the mystery long before the end but I am an avid reader of Agatha Christie so maybe that helped me figure it out. A good plot but honestly too much was revealed, both in the story and in introducing new characters. 3.5/5
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The mystery was well done but the main characters were to my mind unbelievable.
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