The Great Portrait Mystery

Author : R. Austin Freeman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1633552187
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Portrait Mystery written by R. Austin Freeman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Richard Austin Freeman was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Great Portrait Mystery' is one of Freeman's short stories of crime and mystery. The first story featuring his well-known protagonist Dr. Thorndyke – a medico-legal forensic investigator – was published in 1907, and although Freeman's early works were seen as simple homages to his contemporary, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he quickly developed his own style: The 'inverted detective story', in which the identity of the criminal is shown from the beginning, and the story then describes the detective's attempt to solve the mystery.

Author : Richard Austin Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Portrait Mystery written by Richard Austin Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Austin Freeman
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Portrait Mystery and Other Stories written by R. Austin Freeman and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Great Portrait Mystery and Other Stories" is a crime mystery novel by the famed author of the Thorndyke mystery novels, R. Austin Freeman. Joseph Fittleworth is a painter, with a leaning to the methods of the past rather than to those of the future, a fact that often diminished the chances of his success. Hence it had happened that Fittleworth had accepted with avidity a not very lucrative supernumerary post at the National Gallery where he could, at least, have his being amidst the objects of his worship, which included an exceedingly comely young lady, who came regularly to the gallery to copy pictures, principally of the Flemish school. But this mundane experience will all change one fateful morning when he helps a man carry a painting out of the museum, a mistake he would live to regret...

Author : Diane A. S. Stuckart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101014601
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait of a Lady written by Diane A. S. Stuckart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Renaissance man and amateur sleuth is back in this exciting follow-up to The Queen's Gambit. As court engineer to the Duke of Milan, Leonardo da Vinci turns his superior mind to a variety of pursuits-from painting to solving the occasional murder. After the deaths of two female servants, Leonardo asks his apprentice, Dino, to go undercover disguised as a woman in the service of the Duke's ward, Contessa Caterina. This should be easy enough, given that "Dino" is in reality Delfina, a young woman masquerading as a boy to serve as Leonardo's apprentice. Delfina is soon torn between her loyalty to Leonardo and her growing feelings for Gregorio, the handsome captain of the Duke's guard. But if what the Contessa's tarot cards foretold is correct, Delfina might be destined to lose her heart...and perhaps her life.

Author : R. Austin Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937022327
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Portrait Mystery, and Other Stories written by R. Austin Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daring daylight art theft from a crowded museum, a secret document centuries old, and a hidden treasure, these are the elements of the title story in this collection of tales by R. Austin Freeman. Though best known for his famous forensic sleuth, Dr. John Thorndyke, Freeman also on occasion wrote stories featuring other characters. In addition to

Author : Richard Austin Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977913210
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Portrait Mystery (Dr. Thorndyke) written by Richard Austin Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Austin Freeman (11 April 1862 - 28 September 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.Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology.

Author : R. Austin Freeman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533401670
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Portrait Mystery written by R. Austin Freeman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four short stories by the master of mystery. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]

Author : Larissa Reinhart
Publisher : A Cherry Tucker Mystery
ISBN 13 : 9780998548425
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait of a Dead Guy written by Larissa Reinhart and published by A Cherry Tucker Mystery. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Halo, Georgia, Cherry Tucker's always searching for a portrait commission and agrees to a coffin portrait of a family's murdered son. But when she finds herself caught between ex-boyfriends, an illegal gambling ring, and outwitting a killer on a spree, Cherry may have painted herself into a corner she can't escape.

Author : Laura Joh Rowland
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1643854739
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait of Peril written by Laura Joh Rowland and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of C. S. Harris comes Laura Joh Rowland's fifth Victorian mystery where Sarah must confront her own ghosts--and face her most elusive and deadly adversary yet. Victorian London is a city gripped by belief in the supernatural--but a grisly murder becomes a matter of flesh and blood for intrepid photographer Sarah Bain. London, October 1890. Crime scene photographer Sarah Bain is overjoyed to marry her beloved Detective Sergeant Barrett--but the wedding takes a sinister turn when the body of a stabbing victim is discovered in the crypt of the church. Not every newlywed couple begins their marriage with a murder investigation, but Sarah and Barrett, along with their friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly, take the case. The dead man is Charles Firth, whose profession is "spirit photography"-- photographing the ghosts of the deceased. When Sarah develops the photographs he took in the church, she discovers one with a pale, blurred figure attacking the victim. The city's spiritualist community believes the church is haunted and the figure is a ghost. But Sarah is a skeptic, and she and her friends soon learn that the victim had plenty of enemies in the human world--including a scientist who studies supernatural phenomena, his psychic daughter, and an heiress on a campaign to debunk spiritualism and expose fraudulent mediums. In the tunnels beneath a demolished jail, a ghost-hunting expedition ends with a new murder, and new suspects. While Sarah searches for the truth about both crimes, she travels a dark, twisted path into her own family's sordid history. Her long lost father is the prime suspect in a cold-case murder, and her reunion with him proves that even the most determined skeptic can be haunted by ghosts from the past.

Author : Esri Allbritten
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312569165
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portrait of Doreene Gray written by Esri Allbritten and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forty years ago, Maureene Pinter painted a portrait of her twin sister, Doreene. In an eerie turn of events, Doreene hasn't aged, although her portrait has. When Doreene decides to sell the portrait, the Tripping team travel to Doreene's mansion in Port Townsend, Washington, a Victorian town wreathed in mists and mysteries, to get the scoop on this intriguing story" -- Cover insert.