In which Mr. Pottermack commits the perfect crime, only to discover this is the last thing in the world he wants. Worse still is that “oversight”, which leads Dr. Thorndyke to discern that something is amiss.  Let me first apologize for the extreme brevity of this review. As soon as I finish a book I'm starting …

Continue reading Mr. Pottermack’s Oversight by R. Austin Freeman (1930)

John Bellingham was last seen alive at the home of cousin Edward Hurston the twenty-third of November at approximately twenty minutes past five. The discovery of a scarab, which he always wore on his watch chain, steps from the library door of his brother Godfrey’s home, calls into question the time of his disappearance—was it …

Continue reading The Vanishing Man (aka The Eye of Osiris) by R. Austin Freeman (1911)