![]() "Some years ago I devised, as an experiment, an inverted detective story in two parts. ![]() The house where he died, 94 Windmill Street in Gravesend, is now Thorndyke's Nursing Home.įreeman claimed to have invented the inverted detective story in his 1912 collection of short stories The Singing Bone. ![]() During the First World War he served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps and afterwards produced a Thorndyke novel almost every year until his death in 1943. Some short stories with this feature were collected in The Singing Bone in 1912. His first Thorndyke story, The Red Thumb Mark, was published in 1907, and shortly afterwards he pioneered the inverted detective story, in which the identity of the criminal is shown from the beginning. His first stories were written in collaboration with John James Pitcairn (1860–1936), medical officer at Holloway Prison, and published under the nom de plume "Clifford Ashdown". In 1891 he returned to London after suffering from blackwater fever but was unable to find a permanent medical position, and so decided to settle down in Gravesend and earn money from writing fiction, while continuing to practise medicine. He entered the Colonial Service and was sent to Accra on the Gold Coast. ![]() The same year he married Annie Elizabeth, with whom he had two sons. He first trained as an apothecary and then studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital, qualifying in 1887. Austin Freeman was the youngest of the five children of tailor Richard Freeman and Ann Maria Dunn. ![]()
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