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Author: R Austin Freeman

R. Austin Freeman (1862 - 1943) created the Golden Age detective Dr Thorndyke, and is credited with the invention of the inverted mystery in 1910. He was a founding member of the Detection Club, alas most of his novels are no longer in print today.