The Eye of Osiris

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The Eye of Osiris: A Detective Romance (1911)
by R. Austin Freeman
Book 2 in the medico-legal investigator Dr. Thorndyke detective series.

Mr. Hurst entered the dining-room alone, and, observing that the table was laid for two, asked the reason. 'I thought Mr. Bellingham was staying to dinner, sir,' was the housemaid's reply.—'Mr. Bellingham!' exclaimed the astonished host. 'I didn't know he was here. Why was I not told?'

'I thought he was in the study with you, sir,' said the housemaid. On this a search was made for the visitor, with the result that he was nowhere to be found. He had disappeared without leaving a trace, and what made the incident more odd was that the housemaid was certain that he had not gone out by the front door.

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The Eye of Osiris


A Detective Romance by

R. Austin Freeman

TO MY FRIEND:
A.E.B.

CONTENTS

Chapter
I. The Vanishing Man
II. The Eavesdropper
III. John Thorndyke
IV. Legal Complications and a Jackal
V. The Watercress-Bed
VI. Sidelights
VII. John Bellingham's Will
VIII. A Museum Idyll
IX. The Sphinx of Lincoln's Inn
X. The New Alliance
XI. The Evidence Reviewed
XII. A Voyage of Discovery
XIII. The Coroner's Quest
XIV. Which Carries the Reader Into the Probate Court
XV. Circumstantial Evidence
XVI. "O! Artemidorus, Farewell!"
XVII. The Accusing Finger
XVIII. John Bellingham
XIX. A Strange Symposium
XX. The End of the Case


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