The Uttermost Farthing is a fiction book written by R. Austin Freeman. The story begins with the murder of Humphrey Challoner’s wife killed by a bullet from a robber at his home. Mr. Challoner is a wealthy genius man, and he collected the robber's fingerprints as well as part of his hair, which his wife was holding in her hand. He owns a private museum that houses a collection of human and animal skeletons as well as skulls that have shrunk. He hands over the museum and the archives to his doctor, who then makes known the Museum Archives, which contain the tales of how the skeletons were acquired and how Mr. Challoner ultimately tracked out the person who killed his wife. It’s an interesting fictional detective story that will keep the readers interested to read on the story!
Dr. Richard Austin Freeman (born 11 April 1862-died September 28, 1943). He was a British author of detective stories, for the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He created the confusing detective story, a crime fiction wherein the commission of the crime is portrayed toward the start, normally including the personality of the culprit, with the story, then, later describing the detective's attempt to settle the mystery. This innovation has been portrayed as Freeman's most notable contribution to investigator fiction. 30 Freeman involved some of his initial experiences as a colonial surgeon in his books. Various of Dr. Thorndyke's stories include genuine, though sometimes arcane, points of scientific knowledge from regions like tropical medicine, metallurgy, and toxicology.
