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When the wife of Humphrey Challoner, criminal anthropologist, is senselessly murdered during a robbery, he chooses a most unusual means of seeking vengeance. R. Austin Freeman, author of the Dr. John Thorndyke series, turns to the macabre in this story of the lengths a man will... Read Full Overview

A grieving osteologist engages in a lifelong manhunt for the murderer of his beloved wife while maintaining his public persona by incorporating ingenious methods to first attain, then dispose of his victims' bodies.

Weird. Nerdy to the max. Surprisingly unputdownable... Read Full Overview

Dr. Richard Austin Freeman MRCS LSA (11 April 1862 - 28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime... Read Full Overview

The Uttermost Farthing is a mystery novel written by R. Austin Freeman. The story follows the investigation of a murder that takes place in London. The victim is a wealthy businessman named John Minute, who is found dead in his home with a gunshot wound to the head. The police... Read Full Overview

The Uttermost Farthing is a mystery novel written by R. Austin Freeman. The story follows the investigation of a murder that takes place in London. The victim is a wealthy businessman who is found dead in his home. The police suspect the victim's secretary, who has gone missing... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: The Uttermost Farthing by R. Austin Freeman

Reproduction of the original: The Uttermost Farthing by R. Austin Freeman

A grieving osteologist engages in a lifelong manhunt for the murderer of his beloved wife while maintaining his public persona by incorporating ingenious methods to first attain, then dispose of his victims' bodies.

Weird. Nerdy to the max. Surprisingly unputdownable... Read Full Overview

The Uttermost Farthing is a fiction book written by R. Austin Freeman. The story begins with the murder of Humphrey Challoner's wife killed by a bullet from a robber at his home. Mr. Challoner is a wealthy genius man, and he collected the robber's fingerprints as well as part... Read Full Overview

It is not without some misgivings that I at length make public the strange history communicated to me by my lamented friend Humphrey Challoner. The outlook of the narrator is so evidently abnormal, his ethical standards are so remote from those ordinarily current, that the chronicle... Read Full Overview

"The Uttermost Farthing" from Richard Austin Freeman. British writer of detective stories (1862-1943).

It is not without some misgivings that I at length make public the strange history communicated to me by my lamented friend Humphrey Challoner. The outlook of the narrator is so evidently abnormal, his ethical standards are so remote from those ordinarily current, that the chronicle... Read Full Overview

The Uttermost Farthing is a mystery novel written by R. Austin Freeman. The story follows the investigation of a murder case by Dr. John Thorndyke, a forensic scientist and lawyer. The victim, a wealthy businessman named Felix Hearne, is found dead in his study with a bullet... Read Full Overview

It is not without some misgivings that I at length make public the strange history communicated to me by my lamented friend Humphrey Challoner. The outlook of the narrator is so evidently abnormal, his ethical standards are so remote from those ordinarily current, that the chronicle... Read Full Overview