A collection of three full-length adventures for R. Austin Freeman’s peerless forensic detective, Dr John Thorndyke. First, the doctor intervenes in a complex case involving a severed human head discovered in a box in the left luggage office of London’s Fenchurch Street Station; then, questions of inheritance arise when eccentric collector Daniel Penrose disappears just as his wealthy father nears death; and finally, young Dr Oldfield consults his old teacher Thorndyke concerning the disturbingly intractable illness of Modernist potter Peter Gannet—which Thorndyke quickly identifies as a case of arsenic poisoning…
