Volume III contains the remaining half of the Thorndyke Short Stories.
These, along with the contents of 2018's Volume II (with the first half
of the short stories and a few rare Apocryphal items), presents the
complete short Thorndyke mysteries for a new generation.
In all, there are over forty Thorndyke short stories, spread over six
books. This volume contains all twenty-five stories from the final three
collections, Dr. Thorndyke's Casebook, The Puzzle Lock, and
The Magic Casket.
Some of the stories in this book are especially famous, as Freeman was
the first to use the "inverted" mystery, in which the criminal (and how
he did it) are identified during the first half of the story, and the
second half of the narrative shows how Thorndyke solves it, in spite of
the criminal's every effort. (The "inverted" crime story was later used
to great success by Columbo, as well as other detectives.)