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لغز البوتريه الكبير وقصص أخرى
سرقةٌ جريئة في وضَحِ النهار للوحةٍ شهيرة من متحفٍ مزدحم، تقود إلى العثور على وثيقةٍ سرية عمرُها قرون، وكنزٍ مَخفِي. هذه هي عناصرُ قصة «لغز البورتريه الكبير»؛ وهي القصة التي تحمل هذه المجموعة القصصية عنوانها. وقد اشتُهر «فريمان» في المقام الأول بقصصِه عن مُحقِّقه الشهير الطبيب الشرعي الدكتور «جون ثورندايك». وبالإضافة إلى «لغز البورتريه الكبير» تَضمُّ هذه المجموعة ستَّ قصص أخرى؛ يَظهر «ثورندايك» في اثنتين منها ليكشف غموضَ قضيتَين غاية في التشويق، بينما تُظهِر القصصُ الأربع الأخرى جانبًا مشوِّقًا وفريدًا، وتُبرِز روحَ دعابةٍ مُحبَّبة من قِبل المُؤلِّف، كما تستعرض أنماطًا بشرية، وطبائعَ شخصيةً مختلفة؛ فها هو قَسٌّ تتغير حياته تمامًا بفضلِ تميمةِ سحرٍ أفريقية، وهؤلاء لصوصٌ تذهب خططُهم الذكية أدراجَ الرياح بضربةٍ من ضربات القدَر، وذاك شبحُ محامٍ يردُّ الحقَّ لأصحابه بعد مرور مئات السنين، وعاملُ بناءٍ فقيرٌ يبتسم له القدَرُ ويمنحه ثروةً طائلة بطريقة غريبة. إنها مجموعةٌ قصصية مُشوِّقة ومثيرة وجديرة بالقراءة.
184 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2021
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About the author
R. Austin Freeman
602 books86 followersRichard Freeman was born in Soho, London on 11 April 1862, the son of Ann Maria (nee Dunn) and Richard Freeman, a tailor. He was originally named Richard, and later added the Austin to his name.
He became a medical trainee at Middlesex Hospital Medical College, and was accepted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
He married Annie Elizabeth Edwards in 1887; they had two sons. After a few weeks of married life, the couple found themselves in Accra on the Gold Coast, where he was assistant surgeon. His time in Africa produced plenty of hard work, very little money and ill health, so much so that after seven years he was invalided out of the service in 1891. He wrote his first book, 'Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jaman', which was published in 1898. It was critically acclaimed but made very little money.
On his return to England he set up an eye/ear/nose/throat practice, but in due course his health forced him to give up medicine, although he did have occasional temporary posts, and in World War I he was in the ambulance corps.
He became a writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke. The first of the books in the series was 'The Red Thumb Mark' (1907). His first published crime novel was 'The Adventures of Romney Pringle' (1902) and was a collaborative effort published under the pseudonym Clifford Ashdown. Within a few years he was devoting his time to full-time writing.
With the publication of 'The Singing Bone' (1912) he invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's attempt to solve the mystery). Thereafter he used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels.
A large proportion of the Dr Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology.
He died in Gravesend on 28 September 1943.
He became a medical trainee at Middlesex Hospital Medical College, and was accepted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
He married Annie Elizabeth Edwards in 1887; they had two sons. After a few weeks of married life, the couple found themselves in Accra on the Gold Coast, where he was assistant surgeon. His time in Africa produced plenty of hard work, very little money and ill health, so much so that after seven years he was invalided out of the service in 1891. He wrote his first book, 'Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jaman', which was published in 1898. It was critically acclaimed but made very little money.
On his return to England he set up an eye/ear/nose/throat practice, but in due course his health forced him to give up medicine, although he did have occasional temporary posts, and in World War I he was in the ambulance corps.
He became a writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke. The first of the books in the series was 'The Red Thumb Mark' (1907). His first published crime novel was 'The Adventures of Romney Pringle' (1902) and was a collaborative effort published under the pseudonym Clifford Ashdown. Within a few years he was devoting his time to full-time writing.
With the publication of 'The Singing Bone' (1912) he invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's attempt to solve the mystery). Thereafter he used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels.
A large proportion of the Dr Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology.
He died in Gravesend on 28 September 1943.
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June 28, 2021
7:53 28/6/2021 الإثنين
الغاز فريدة من نوعها بافكار جديدة ومختلفة وشخصيات رائعة حلت الالغاز ببراعة،استمتعت بجميع الالغاز على حد سواء لكن اكثر قصة ابهرتني هي المرابي المفقود
الغاز فريدة من نوعها بافكار جديدة ومختلفة وشخصيات رائعة حلت الالغاز ببراعة،استمتعت بجميع الالغاز على حد سواء لكن اكثر قصة ابهرتني هي المرابي المفقود
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