Description: Haycraft Cornerstone R. Austin Freeman The Red Thumb Mark 1911 1st US VG First edition, first printing with 1911 on title page. Publisher New York Donald W. Newton, 1911. Octavo 5" x 7.5" [vii] 1-248 pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. No dust jacket. Book Condition: Very Good. Spine edges are rubbed. Binding strong. Text clean. In this first novel, Dr Thorndyke rescues a poor soul, about to be convicted for a crime he didn't commit on the strength of a bloody thumbprint at the site of the crime. (It was the time when the importance of fingerprints had first been discovered, and this was obviously a big thing.) To all and sundry it looks like an open and shut case - until Thorndyke proves in court how it is not. Richard Austin Freeman was a 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. Quite scarce. A HQ Cornerstone title.
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: R. Austin Freeman
Personalized: No
Publisher: Donald W. Newton
Topic: Mystery, Thriller
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Character Family: Dr Thorndyke
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1911
