Percival Bland's Proxy and The Missing Mortgagee - Richard Austin Freeman
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These are two short stories from the collection THE GREAT PORTRAIT
MYSTERY: "PERCIVAL BLAND'S PROXY" and "THE MISSING MORTGAGEE",
wherein the brilliant medical investigator, Dr. Thorndyke, solves
murderous crimes.Percival Bland was an uncommon criminal. He knew
that his continual passing of counterfeit banknotes would
eventually catch up with him, so he had a plan--precautions against
the inevitable catastrophe. We can understand why he has created an
alternate persona, Robert Lindsay, using disguises and renting two
places of residence. No one seems to notice that he and his
"cousin" Robert never are at their respective homes simultaneously,
nor are they at home when the other visits, nor does anyone see the
resemblance of their facial appearance under the makeup. But why
does he buy human bones at auction? The lot was described in the
catalog as "a complete set of human osteology" but they were not an
ordinary "student's set," for the bones of the hands and feet,
instead of being strung together on cat-gut, were united by their
original ligaments and were "of an unsavoury brown colour." What
does he want with those moldy bones? He has a nefarious plan, but
it does not fool Dr. Thorndyke.After Dr. Thorndyke solved the case
of Percival Bland, the doctor was called in by a life insurance
company to investigate another case. There was apparently no doubt
that Thomas Elton, a friendless, poverty-stricken artist, had
fallen from the top of the overhanging cliff onto the beach. Now,
one would suppose with the evidence of this fall of about a hundred
and fifty feet, the smashed face and broken neck, there was not
much room for doubt as to the cause of death. But Thorndyke indeed
has his doubts.
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