Eye Of Osiris (Version 2)

The Eye of Osiris opens on a puzzle that has confounded lawyers and family alike: the disappeared archaeologist John Bellingham, last seen exploring tombs in Egypt, whose death cannot be proven and whose fortune cannot be claimed. When his nephew and the young Dr. Paul Berkley, a former student of the remarkable Dr. John Thorndyke, take up the case, they enter a labyrinth of Egyptian artifacts, conflicting testimonies, and a will that defies settlement. Thorndyke, with his unprecedented combination of medical expertise, legal knowledge, and scientific rigor, applies his particular methods to untangle what appears to be an impossible inheritance. This is one of the foundational texts of forensic detective fiction, a novel that treats deduction as a science and proves that the truth, however buried, yields to patient observation.