Review: A Certain Dr Thorndyke

A Certain Dr Thorndyke by R. Austin Freeman

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I do enjoy Thorndyke mysteries, but this is an odd one. The first half of the book is taken up with the entertaining (but largely irrelevant and most implausible) exploits of Osmond in Africa. Only in the later chapters does Thorndyke actually appear - at which point he naturally proceeds to clear everything up with characteristic thoroughness.