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“Tales of the Fish Patrol” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. Tales of the Fish Patrol is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of seven moving and thrilling stories such as: White and Yellow, The King of the Greeks or The Siege of the "Lancashire Queen"....

Dr.Thornedyke’s methods of detection are characterised by investigations of apparently irrelevant facts and lengthy explanations of his train of hypothetical reasoning. In this novel, Dr. Thorndyke’s ability to identify fish scales and rope material sets his investigation in motion. The crime is the murder of an aristocrat staged to look like a suicide. There are really two stories alternating, which...