The Eye of Osiris: A Detective Story
By R. Austin Freeman
Young medical doctor Paul Barkley makes a house-call and finds himself involved in the mysterious disappearance of his patient’s brother, an egyptologist with a strange will and a mummy. When skeletal remains start to appear, suspicion falls on Ruth Bellingham, the daughter of his patient and niece of the missing man. Dr. Barkeley, in love with Ruth, calls in the formidable medical and legal expert Dr. John Thorndyke to get to the bottom of things.
Dr. Thorndyke appeared in more than twenty novels and dozens of short stories by R. Austin Freeman. He is among the first fictional criminal investigators to employ scientific techniques, such as the examinmation of fingerprints, in the solution of cases. If you have read the Sherlock Holmes tales and want more Edwardian sleuthing, try this.