Title: The Eye of Osiris
Subtitle: A Detective Story
First published: 1911
Description: Dr. John Thorndyke is a professor of medicine, but he is also a pathological sleuth with a taste for mysteries that would stop other detectives cold. The disappearance of a successful archaeologist. poses a disturbing riddle to Thorndyke: "When is a murder not a murder?' The answer hinges on the question of whether or not it is possible to fabricate a corpse out of whole cloth. And why would anyone want to, except to disguise a murder?
Subjects: London (england), fiction, Physicians, fiction, Thorndyke, doctor (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Missing persons, Private investigators, Mummies, Fiction, Classic Literature, Thriller, Fiction, horror, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, romance, suspense, Large type books
Places: England, London