I. The Blue Scarab II. The Case of the White Foot-Prints III. The New Jersey Sphinx IV. The Touchstone V. A Fisher of Men VI. The Stolen Ingots VII. The Funeral Pyre Medico-legal practice is largely concerned with crimes against the person, the details of which are often sordid, gruesome and unpleasant. Hence the curious and romantic case of the Blue Scarab (though really outside our specialty) came as somewhat of a relief. But to me it is of interest principally as illustrating two of those remarkable gifts which made my friend, Thorndyke, unique as an investigator: his uncanny power of picking out the one essential fact at a glance, and his capacity to produce, when required, inexhaustibl…
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