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Dr. Thorndyke Takes Another Bow
DR. JOHN Evelyn Thorndyke (pictured; illustration from Pearson’s Magazine) and his creator, R. Austin Freeman, are of sufficient stature to deserve a few more words in these pages.
Freeman was born in London in 1862, the son of a fashionable tailor. Having no interest in his father’s…