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What can a small physical fact reveal about a woman at the centre of a mystery?
Angelina Frood stands at the heart of a puzzle: who is she, and what does her presence mean for those near her? In R. Austin Freeman’s The Mystery of Angelina Frood, Dr. John Thorndyke brings the knowledge of a London doctor and barrister to questions of crime and evidence.
Thorndyke notices physical details that others overlook. His friend Dr. Jervis helps you follow the reasoning, while Polton supplies skilled laboratory work. Around them lies a London of lawyers, chambers, courts and consulting rooms. The invitation is simple: watch closely, weigh the clues, and test your judgment beside the detective.
What you’ll discover
- Small facts that matter Follow Thorndyke as careful observation turns overlooked physical details into evidence worth weighing.
- A woman worth studying Explore the questions surrounding Angelina Frood, whose identity and doings shape the central puzzle.
- Science meets the law See how Thorndyke brings medical knowledge and legal training to the work of detection.
- A fair contest Take your place beside the detective and weigh the evidence for yourself as the inquiry unfolds.
- London at a measured pace Enter a world of chambers and consulting rooms, where patient reasoning takes centre stage.
Who will love it
You will enjoy this book if you like clue-by-clue puzzles, sharp talk between friends, old English towns, and a calm investigator who turns small details into proof.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A midnight patient hides a crime
- Angelina explains why she keeps moving
- Love unsettles the doctor's judgment
- A disappearance calls for careful records
- Scattered belongings begin forming a pattern
- Clues connect rooms with hidden routes
- Expectation shapes what people notice
- Proof requires more than a guess
- Facts need testing before they speak
Who’s who
- Dr. StrangewaysA young doctor who tells the story, takes over a Rochester practice and falls in love with his patient.
- Angelina FroodA striking, grave woman living apart from her husband, who wants nothing more than to be free of him.
- Nicholas FroodAngelina's drug-ravaged husband, a former magazine writer who follows her from town to town.
- Dr. John ThorndykeA calm medical lawyer who weighs evidence with great care and tells almost nobody what he thinks.
- Mr. JappThe kindly, white-crested senior partner of Japp and Bundy, a relative of Angelina who loves old buildings.
- BundyJapp's dapper young junior partner, quick with jokes, who becomes the doctor's closest friend in town.
- Sergeant CobbledickA gentle, bald police sergeant who hopes this case will win him promotion and follows every clue.
- Mrs. GillowThe melancholy woman who rents Angelina her rooms, sighs at every turn and sounds the first alarm.
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The Mystery of Angelina Frood
by R. Austin Freeman · 1924
A young doctor falls for a hunted wife in Rochester, and then she vanishes into a foggy night.
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“Coming events cast their shadows before them”
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Would you step into a stranger's car at midnight? A young doctor named Strangeways does, and it carries him to a dark London house where a pale woman lies on a bed with a mark around her neck.
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- 82,400 words
- Library level
- Medium longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1924by R. Austin Freeman
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A midnight call leads to a locked room
Strangeways is minding Dr. Pumphrey's practice in Regent's Park when a stranger rings near midnight. He asks the doctor to see a lady who has suffered a shock. He gives her name as Mrs. Johnson only after a pause. Already the doctor senses something is hidden.
A closed car carries him to a dark house. Upstairs he sees bruises on a door frame, as if it had been forced. Inside, a young woman lies pale on a bed while a man with clubbed fingers sobs in the corner. Under her cloak the doctor finds a livid mark around her neck, left by a cord pulled tight. She says a gold collar made it, and he does not believe her.
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Freeman, R. Austin. The Mystery of Angelina Frood. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-mystery-of-angelina-frood.
Freeman, R. A. (2026). The mystery of Angelina Frood. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-mystery-of-angelina-frood (Original work published 1924)
Freeman, R. Austin. The Mystery of Angelina Frood. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-mystery-of-angelina-frood.
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What is The Mystery of Angelina Frood about?
A young doctor named Strangeways meets a woman hiding from her drug-addicted husband, falls in love with her, and then watches her vanish in the fog. A trail of her belongings and the expert Dr. Thorndyke lead the search.
Who is Dr. Thorndyke?
Dr. John Thorndyke is a medical lawyer who gives scientific opinions in court. He is calm, secretive and exact, and he solves cases by noting small facts and testing them. He appears in many novels by R. Austin Freeman.
Who wrote The Mystery of Angelina Frood and when?
R. Austin Freeman wrote it. He was an English doctor and writer who died in 1943. It is a fictional detective novel set in Rochester and London in the early twentieth century, not a true story.
The author
R. Austin Freeman
1862–1943 · British detective novelist
Richard Austin Freeman (1862–1943) was a British doctor and writer. He was born in London and died in Gravesend, Kent. He wrote detective novels and short stories featuring the medical investigator Dr John Thorndyke. His first Thorndyke novel, The Red Thumb Mark, was published in 1907.
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