Silent Witness

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Detective Fiction

Authors: R. Austin Freeman In Year : 1914

Book Language: English

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Chapter I - The Beginning of the Mystery
Chapter II - The Finding of the Reliquary
Chapter III - "Who is Sylvia?"
Chapter IV - Septimus Maddock, Deceased
Chapter V - The Lethal Chamber
Chapter VI - A Council of War
Chapter VII - An Unseen Enemy
Chapter VIII - It's an Ill Wind --
Chapter IX - Thorndyke takes up the Scent
Chapter X - The Unheeded Warning
Chapter XI - A Chapter of Accidents
Chapter XII - Miss Vyne
Chapter XIII - A Mysterious Stranger
Chapter XIV - A Lonely Woman
Chapter XV - Exit Dr. Jardine
Chapter XVI - Enter Father Humperdinck
Chapter XVII - The Palimpsest
Chapter XVIII - A Visitor from the States
Chapter XIX - Tenebrae
Chapter XX - The Hue and Cry
Chapter XXI - The Final Problem
Chapter XXII - Thorndyke reviews the Case

In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the night. However, when he returns to the spot with a police officer, the corpse has disappeared. And this is just the start of a series of strange and sometimes life threatening events. Had it really been a dead man he had seen? And if so, who was it? And what is the role of the mysterious Mrs. Samway, who keeps popping up wherever he goes? He will need the help of Dr. John Thorndyke to solve this mystery.

This is the fourth novel featuring R. Austin Freeman's famous detective Dr. John Thorndyke. The preceding ones are also available on LibriVox: The Red Thumb Mark, the Eye of Osiris (a.k.a. the Vanishing Man, both titles on LV) and The Mystery of 31 New Inn. (Summary by Anna Simon)