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The Crime Doctor

E. W. Hornung

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. . .I wanted to speak to the Home Secretary. I never heard of it until this morning, for I have been out of the way of newspapers, as you may know; and it is difficult to take in a whole trial at one hurried reading. Do you mind telling me why everybody is so sure that this man is the murderer? Did anybody see him do it?"

The crime doctor smiled as he shook his head.

"Very few murders are actually witnessed, Lady Vera; yet this would have been one of the few, but for the fog. Croucher was plainly seen through the jeweler's window, helping himself one moment, then struggling with the unfortunate sergeant."

"Was the struggle seen as plainly as the robbery?"

"Not quite, perhaps, but the evidence was equally[Pg 45] convincing about both. Then the stolen goods were found, some of them, still in Croucher's possession; and the way he tried to account for that, in the witness-box, was only less suicidal than his fatal attempt at an alibi."

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Community Reviews

In a dexterous manner, the novel traces back criminality to its social genesis. Women's hardships, the women's suffrage movement, and the bread strike, by way of illustration, had contributed greatly to the propagation of crime by the turn of the century and during the early 1900s. By reaching such

I really liked this book! People sure have driven its rating down on here because of the language (read: Victorian/Edwardian and into the 20th century) being too dense. It was ENJOYABLE. EXCITING!! The twists really got me; the last chapter I said “holy shit!” out loud!

I’ve read Raffles, and Raffles

a bit hard to follow because of when it was written & in the style of the day; even these are short stories they are connected in time & the same supporting characters; Hornung is the creator of Raffles & brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This is a feast of droll conceits, satiric sub-texts and fun characterization but, alas, all is muffled in a purple fog of verbiage. I didn't finish it. The fog got me...more