Download or read book The Red Thumb Mark (Illustrated) written by R. Austin Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medicolegal forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story and used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. A large proportion of the Dr Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology.