While I enjoyed this 4th book in the Dr. Thorndyke series, it seemed unlikely to me that Jervis (who first enters Dr. Thorndyke's employment during the course of the book) couldn't make some connections that struck me as obvious such as his patient Graves had a specific type of injury to his right eye and Jeffery Blackmore had an injury to one of his eyes!. ( )

Dr Thorndyke with the help of Dr Jervis investigate two cases. The first the case of the will of Jeffrey Blackmore and his consequent death; and secondly the case of a Mr Graves and his association with a Mr H Weiss.
Interesting mystery ( )

Repetitious and overly long inquest into a morphine drugging and a will. ( )

While I enjoyed this 4th book in the Dr. Thorndyke series, it seemed unlikely to me that Jervis (who first enters Dr. Thorndyke's employment during the course of the book) couldn't make some connections that struck me as obvious such as his patient Graves had a specific type of injury to his right eye and Jeffery Blackmore had an injury to one of his eyes!. ( )

At the start, I was really enjoying this mystery. Then Thorndike came on the scene and began to treat Dr. Jarvis as if he was a child. This treatment went on and on and began to annoy me. Obviously "stupid" Jarvis was used as a comparison to show how brilliant Thorndike was. Net result? I ended up disliking Detective Thorndike thoroughly. What an ego! ( )