Eye of Osiris
Author: first_name: R. Austin
last_name: Freeman
Language: English
Year: 1911

<i>The Eye of Osiris</i> is an early example from the Dr. Thorndyke series of detective stories written by R. Austin Freeman.  In these stories, the author drew on his extensive medical and scientific knowledge for his main character, a medico-legal expert who relies on forensic evidence and logical deduction in solving cases.  In this case, Thorndyke steps in to investigate the disappearance of one John Bellingham, an English gentleman and amateur Egyptologist, who has vanished under very myste