Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Der stumme Zeuge
Für wen es gedacht ist
You will enjoy this if you like puzzles built from small physical clues, scenes of narrow escape, and a calm investigator who reasons step by step toward the truth.
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A young doctor shelters from the rain in a dark Hampstead lane and notices what looks like a boot. It is a dead man, and by the time the police arrive, the body is gone. A Silent Witness is a mystery by R. Austin Freeman, with Dr. John Thorndyke, the forensic investigator. It gives you a trail of vanishing bodies, traps and clues that you can follow alongside him. Let us begin with that night in Millfield Lane.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A dead man vanishes from Millfield LaneFree
- 2Small clues point toward Ken Wood
- 3A girl with a sketchbox and a strange painter
- 4A routine death certificate and a watching woman
- 5The cellar, the gas and the rescue
- 6Thorndyke reads the traces others miss
- 7Danger follows Jardine across London
- 8Father Humperdinck's tale and the lonely woman
- 9What the story is really about
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A dead man vanishes from Millfield Lane
Humphrey Jardine, a newly qualified doctor, takes a late walk along Millfield Lane in Hampstead. Rain drives him to shelter, and he spots what seems to be a stump shaped like a foot. It is the body of an elderly man in clerical dress, cold and without a pulse.
Jardine fetches the police, but the body is gone when the inspector arrives. The sergeant suggests the man only fainted and walked away. Jardine is sure he was dead, yet he cannot prove it, and the police treat him with open suspicion.
This opening sets the puzzle for the whole book. A witness holds a fact nobody believes, and that makes him both useful and exposed.
That’s 1 of 9 key points.
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Questions about Der stumme Zeuge
What is A Silent Witness about?
A young doctor, Humphrey Jardine, finds a dead man in a Hampstead lane, and the body vanishes. He is then attacked several times. Dr. Thorndyke investigates and ties these events to a cremation and a missing Jesuit benefactor.
Who is Dr. Thorndyke?
Thorndyke is a lecturer in medical jurisprudence, a doctor and lawyer who solves crimes by observing small physical facts, testing hypotheses and using science. He appears in many of Freeman's books.
What does the gold reliquary mean?
The small gold case is a reliquary, a container for a holy relic. Its letters A.M.D.G. and S.V.D.P. point to the Jesuits and to Saint Vincent de Paul, and its owner becomes a central clue.
Is A Silent Witness a true story?
R. Austin Freeman sets it in London and used real places such as Hampstead Heath, the Temple and the Embankment, with forensic methods drawn from his medical knowledge.
Is A Silent Witness easy to read?
It has lively dialogue and a clear sequence of mysteries. Jardine tells it in a warm, humorous voice, and Thorndyke explains his reasoning step by step.