The Red Thumb Mark

Originally written in 1907, The Red Thumb Mark opens the series by R. Austin Freeman featuring Dr.

• Thorndyke, who is a sort of Sherlock-Holmes type character.
• A single fingerprint is found at the scene of a crime.
• When the police are able to identify that fingerprint, the case seems closed.
• But Dr.

• It does not take Dr.
• Thorndyke to figure out who the criminal is.
• It is up to Dr.
• John Thorndyke, and his new assistant Dr.
• Jervis to prove the young mans innocence before hes found guilty and hanged.
• The mystery in this wonderful detective tale is who the lovely heroine is in love with.
• The answer may surprise you.

Thorndyke, the detective/barrister/medical doctor who takes on defense of this suspect, thinks he can disprove the prosecutions case, based on that same fingerprint.