THE ALUMINUM DAGGER R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 16 July 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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A doctor solves a closed room murder involving a man who has been stabbed in the back with a dagger while the door was locked from the inside and there was no other means of escape for the killer.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories entails this is your |
| 0:34.2 | host John Hagenhorn it's time for a mystery this one's from an author we haven't |
| 0:39.3 | heard from yet and that's our Austin Freeman. The name of the short story? The aluminum dagger. |
| 0:46.0 | I'll tell you a little bit about Richard Austin Freeman. |
| 0:49.0 | He was a British author who invented the inverted detective story, also called a how catch him, |
| 0:56.4 | in which the murder and the perpetrator are disclosed at the beginning of the story, |
| 1:01.0 | followed by a description of the detective's attempt to solve the mystery. |
| 1:05.2 | His best known series featured on the medical forensic expert Dr. Thorndyke. |
| 1:10.5 | Freeman flavors his stories with bits of |
| 1:12.5 | of arcane scientific knowledge about toxicology, tropical medicine, |
| 1:16.8 | and metallurgy. |
| 1:18.3 | Some of those subjects stemmed from his studies as an apothecary at Middlesex Hospital in London, where he |
| 1:25.2 | qualified as a doctor in 1887. Shortly after he got married, he and his bride moved to |
| 1:31.0 | Acra on the gold coast of Ghana. |
| 1:33.8 | Thus, his propensity to offer tropical medical details in many of his stories was born. |
| 1:39.8 | Freeman contracted Blackwater fever and returned to London in 1891. |
| 1:45.0 | There he turned to writing fiction and practicing medicine in Gravesand. |
| 1:49.0 | During World War I, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a captain, after which he published a new Dr. Thorndyke novel, on average once a year until his death in 1943. |
| 2:00.0 | He draws the reader into his stories by creating a sense of heightened drama with his descriptions, as in. |
| 2:07.0 | There was in the entire aspect of the room something very grim and dreadful. |
| 2:14.0 | Especially impressive was the air of suspense of ordinary, everyday life suddenly arrested, |
| 2:21.2 | cut short in the twinkly |
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