The Eye of Osiris
A Detective Story
About this book
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
- classic literature
- fiction
- fiction, horror
- fiction, mystery & detective, general
- fiction, romance, general
- fiction, romance, suspense
- fiction, thrillers, suspense
- large type books
- london (england), fiction
- missing persons
- mummies
- physicians, fiction
- private investigators
- thorndyke, doctor (fictitious character), fiction
- thriller