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 Dr.
Thorndyke's Crime File
MY subject is
Dr. John Thorndyke, the hero or central
character of most of my detective stories. So
I'll give you a short account of his real origin;
of the way in which he did in fact come into
existence.
To discover the origin of John Thorndyke I have
to reach back into the past for at least fifty
years, to the time when I was a medical student
preparing for my final examination. For reasons
which I need not go into I gave rather special
attention to the legal aspects of medicine and
the medical aspects of law. And as I read my
text-books, and especially the illustrative
cases, I was profoundly impressed by their
dramatic quality. Medical jurisprudence deals
with the human body in its relation to all kinds
of legal problems...
  The
Jacob Street Mystery
ON a pleasant, sunny afternoon near the
end of May, when the late spring was just
merging into early summer, Mr. Thomas Pedley (Tom
Pedley to his friends, or more usually plain Tom)
was seated on a substantial sketching stool
before a light bamboo easel on which was fixed
an upright canvas measuring eighteen inches by
twelve. To an expert eye, his appearance, his
simple, workmanlike outfit, the leisurely ease
with which he handled his brush, and the picture
which was growing into shape on the canvas,
would all have suggested a competent and
experienced landscape painter...
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