Male : Novelist of scientific detective stories. Created the character of Dr John Thorndyke. Married Annie Edwards in 1887. Held medical appointments in West Africa before returning to England. Took up full-time writing in 1905 when he had to retire from medicine through ill-health. A member of the council of the Eugenics Society

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Soho, London

Date of Birth : 1862 Date of Death : 1943 Age : 81

Pseudonyms : Clifford Ashdown (a joint pseud with J J Pitcairn, a prison doctor)

Other Work : Assistant Medical Officer at Holloway Prison 1900

Education : Middlesex Hospital Medical College (Medicine)

1898-1905
Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jaman (1898 Constable) (1898 Stokes NY) - Non-fiction
Offered in 1998 for £200
The Adventures of Romney Pringle (1902 Ward Lock) (1975 Oswald Train, US) - By Clifford Ashdown
[First appeared in Cassell's Magazine during 1902]
The Golden Pool : A Story of a Forgotten Mine (1905 Cassell)

1907-1920
The Red Thumb Mark (1907 Collingwood Bros, London) - [the first scientific detection book]
(1907 Collingwood Pb) (1911 Hodder & Stoughton) (1911 Donald Newton, NY)
John Thorndyke's Cases (1909 Chatto & Windus) (in US 1931 as "Dr Thorndyke's Cases", Dodd Mead) - ss
The Eye of Osiris (1911 Hodder & Stoughton) + 150 in Egyptian binding
(1912 Dodd Mead as "The Vanishing Man")
The Singing Bone (1912 Hodder & Stoughton) (1923 Dodd Mead) - ss
The Mystery of 31 New Inn (1912 Hodder & Stoughton) (1913 Winston US)
A Silent Witness (1913 John C Winston, US) (1914 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Unwilling Adventurer (1913 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Uttermost Farthing (1914 Winston US) (1920 Pearson as "A Savant's Vendetta")
UK Edition offered in 1999 for £820
The Exploits of Danby Croker (1916 Duckworth)
The Great Portrait Mystery (1918 Hodder & Stoughton) - ss

1921-1930
Social Decay and Regeneration (1921 Constable) - Non-fiction
Helen Vardon's Confession (1922 Hodder & Stoughton)
John Thorndyke's Cases : Vol 1 - The Man with the Nailed Shoes (1922 Pitman Shorthand)
Dr Thorndyke's Casebook (1923 Hodder & Stoughton) (1923 Dodd Mead as "The Blue Scarab") - ss
The Cat's Eye (1923 Hodder & Stoughton) (1927 Dodd Mead)
The Mystery of Angelina Frood (1924 Hodder & Stoughton) (1925 Dodd Mead)
The Puzzle Lock (1925 Hodder & Stoughton) (1926 Dodd Mead) - ss
The Shadow of the Wolf (1925 Hodder & Stoughton) (1925 Dodd Mead)
The D'Arblay Mystery (1926 Hodder & Stoughton) (1926 Dodd Mead)
The Magic Casket (1927 Hodder & Stoughton) (1927 Dodd Mead) - ss
A Certain Dr Thorndyke (1927 Hodder & Stoughton) (1928 Dodd Mead)
The Surprising Expereinces of Mr Shuttlebury Cobb (1927 Hodder & Stoughton)
Flighty Phyllis (1928 Hodder & Stoughton)
As a Thief in the Night (1928 Hodder & Stoughton) (1928 Dodd Mead)
The Famous Cases of Dr Thorndyke (1929 Hodder & Stoughton)
(1932 Dodd Mead as "The Dr Thorndyke Omnibus")
Mr Pottermack's Oversight (1930 Hodder & Stoughton) (1930 Dodd Mead)
Dr Thormndyke Investigates (1930 University of London Press)

1931-1994
Pontifex, Son & Thorndyke (1931 Hodder & Stoughton) (1931 Dodd Mead)
When Rogues Fall Out (1932 Hodder & Stoughton) (1932 Dodd Mead as "Dr Thorndyke's Discovery")
Dr Thorndyke Intervenes (1933 Hodder & Stoughton) (1933 Dodd Mead)
For the Defence : Dr Thorndyke (1934 Hodder & Stoughton) (1934 Dodd Mead)
The Penrose Mystery (1936 Hodder & Stoughton) (1936 Dodd Mead)
Felo De Se ? (1937 Hodder & Stoughton) (1937 Dodd Mead as "Death at the Inn")
The Stoneware Monkey (1938 Hodder & Stoughton) (1939 Dodd Mead)
Mr polten Explains (1940 Hodder & Stoughton) (1940 Dodd Mead)
Dr Thorndyke's Crime File (1941 Dodd Mead)
The Jacob Street Mystery (1942 Hodder & Stoughton) (1942 Dodd Mead as "The Unconscious Witness")
The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle (1969 Train, US)
The Best Dr Thorndyke detective Stories (1973 Dover, Pb, US) - ss
From a Surgeon's Diary (1975 Ferret Fantasy Pb) (1977 Train, US)
The Queen's Treasure (1975 Train US)
The Dead Hand (1994 Highfield Press Pb)

READING
Norman Donaldson : In Search of Dr Thorndyke (1971 The Bowling Green University Popular Press)
Oliver Mayo : Richard Austin Freeman (1980)
Oliver Mayo : The Anthropologist at Large (1980 Investigator Press Pb)