A Silent Witness — Richard Austin Freeman

Presently a light rain began to fall Foreseeing that I should have to curtail my walk I stepped forward more briskly and passing between the posts entered the narrowest and most secluded part of the lane But now the rain suddenly increased and a squall of wind drove it athwart the path I drew up in the shelter of one of the tall oak fences by which the lane is here enclosed and waited for the shower to pass And as I stood with my back to the fence pensively filling my pipe I became for the first time sensible of the utter solitude of the place I looked about me and listened The lane was darker here than elsewhere a mere trench between the high fences I could dimly see the posts at the entrance and a group of large elms over shadowing them In the other direction where the lane doubled sharply upon itself was absolute inky blackness save where a faint glimmer from the wet ground showed the corner of the fence and a projecting stump or tree root jutting out from the corner and looking curiously like a human foot with the toes pointed upward Tanıtım Bülteninden

Presently a light rain began to fall Foreseeing that I should have to curtail my walk I stepped forward more briskly and passing between the posts entered the narrowest and most secluded part of the lane But now the rain suddenly increased and a squall of wind drove it athwart the path I drew up in the shelter of one of the tall oak fences by which the lane is here enclosed and waited for the shower to pass And as I stood with my back to the fence pensively filling my pipe I became for the first time sensible of the utter solitude of the place I looked about me and listened The lane was darker here than elsewhere a mere trench between the high fences I could dimly see the posts at the entrance and a group of large elms over shadowing them In the other direction where the lane doubled sharply upon itself was absolute inky blackness save where a faint glimmer from the wet ground showed the corner of the fence and a projecting stump or tree root jutting out from the corner and looking curiously like a human foot with the toes pointed upward

Dr Richard Austin Freeman MRCS LSA 11 April 1862 28 September 1943 was a British writer of detective stories mostly featuring the medico legal forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke He invented the inverted detective story a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning usually including the identity of the perpetrator with the story then describing the detective s attempt to solve the mystery Roberts said that this invention was Freeman s most noticeable contribution to detective fiction Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels Many of the Dr Thorndyke stories involve genuine but sometimes arcane points of scientific knowledge from areas such as tropical medicine metallurgy and toxicology Tanıtm Bülteninden

Dr Richard Austin Freeman MRCS LSA 11 April 1862 ndash 28 September 1943 was a British writer of detective stories mostly featuring the medico legal forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke He invented the inverted detective story a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning usually including the identity of the perpetrator with the story then describing the detectives attempt to solve the mystery Roberts said that this invention was Freemans most noticeable contribution to detective fiction Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels Many of the Dr Thorndyke stories involve genuine but sometimes arcane points of scientific knowledge from areas such as tropical medicine metallurgy and toxicology Tanıtm Bülteninden