The Complete Dr. Thorndyke - Volume 2: Short Stories (Part I): John Thorndyke's Cases The Singing Bone The Great Portrait Mystery and Apocryphal Material

Volume II contains roughly the first half of the Thorndyke Short Stories. In all, there are over forty Thorndyke short stories, spread over six books. This volume contains the fifteen short stories from the first three, John Thorndyke's Cases, The Singing Bone, and The Great Portrait Mystery.

Some of the stories in this book are especially famous, as they were the first use of the "inverted" mystery, in which the criminal (and how he did it) are identified from the first, and the second half...