The Stranger's Latchkey | R. Austin Freeman | A Bitesized Audiobook

Another case for the Edwardian detective Dr. John Thorndyke. In this episode, Thorndyke's colleague Dr. Jervis is taking a break from medical jurisprudence to work as a locum country physician. It's not long though before he becomes embroiled in a mystery, which requires Thorndyke's forensic skills to interpret the clues provided by footprints and a lost latchkey... The story begins at 00:01:20 Narrated/performed by Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me: * Occasional/one-off support via Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesizedaudio * Monthly support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitesizedaudio * Visit my Bandcamp page to hear more of my performances of classic stories, and you can purchase and download high quality audio files to listen offline: https://bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com/ * Become a Bitesized Audio Classics member on YouTube, from $1 / £1 / €1 per month: https://www.youtube.com/c/BitesizedAudioClassics/join 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:20 The Stranger's Latchkey 00:57:15 Credits, thanks and further listening Richard Austin Freeman (1862–1943) was born in London and trained in medicine at the Middlesex Hospital. After a spell as a house surgeon, he joined the Colonial Service and spent some years working in Africa. He was invalided home with blackwater fever in 1891. Returning to London he worked as an ear, nose and throat specialist, as well as in general practice and, for a time, as Medical Officer at Holloway Prison. He began writing fiction in the early 1900s, initially under the pseudonym "Clifford Ashdown", including the Romney Pringle stories which were serialised in Cassell's Magazine in 1902. Five years later, under his own name, he wrote 'The Red Thumb Mark', the novel which introduced the character of Dr. John Thorndyke. Thorndyke is a self-described "medical jurispractitioner", having given up practice as a medical doctor to train in the law, and established him