tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499247432649483938.post1044175687979979201..comments2024-03-11T01:39:11.362-04:00Comments on At the Scene of the Crime: Eye spy with my little eye...Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01844617192737950378noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499247432649483938.post-47406635791701562602011-07-22T01:31:34.542-04:002011-07-22T01:31:34.542-04:00I prefer his inverted detective novels and stories...I prefer his inverted detective novels and stories. <i>The Shadow of the Wolf</i> is just plain genius. If any of his books deserve to be reprinted it is that one. I also enjoyed <i>Mr. Pottermack's Oversight.</i> Columbo owes a debt of gratitude to R. Austin Freeman and Dr. Thorndyke. Freeman had a bit of an obsession with Egyptology, didn't he?J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499247432649483938.post-6635632122597147022011-07-21T16:47:34.165-04:002011-07-21T16:47:34.165-04:00When I first read this book, I was laboring under ...When I first read this book, I was laboring under the impression that I had unearthed a transitional fossil in the development of the Japanese detective story. I was reading and watching Japanese stories at the time, and books like <i>The Tattoo Murder Case</i> and <i>The Tokyo Zodiac Murders</i>, were still fresh in my mind – and this book just struck me as a proto-Japanese detective story. But Ho-Ling discovered that the book wasn't translated until the 1950s, however, it's still possible that writers like Edogawa Rampo were aware of the book (some of them read un-translated, Western detective stories). <br /><br />One thing I never understood, though, is why Freeman didn't incorporated the Osiris myth into the plot. I remember I kept expecting that angle to come up, but it never happened and that story practically writes itself (Osiris... scattered body parts... it just makes sense!).TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499247432649483938.post-34913288879533523562011-07-21T10:12:22.565-04:002011-07-21T10:12:22.565-04:00An excellent tribute to an author too long neglect...An excellent tribute to an author too long neglected. Some of Freeman's finest novels, like Osiris and Cat's Eye, are arguably superior to those of Conan Doyle in their precision of plotting and economy of language.<br /><br />How ever could Freeman have been dismissed as humdrum?John Yeomanhttp://www.writers-village.orgnoreply@blogger.com