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As a Thief in the Night (Large Print Edition)
Hardcover
Series: Most Wanted (Potomac)
Mystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction
Publisher: Clearview Editions
Published: Nov 11 2026
Pages: 596
Weight: 2.74
Height: 1.31 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
As a Thief in the Night by R. Austin Freeman, originally published 1928. First published in London and New York in 1928, the novel brought Freeman's medico-legal detective into the interwar golden age of detective fiction. The novel still repays reading for the patient way it transforms a chronically ill man's apparently natural death into a contest between planted evidence and Dr. Thorndyke's exacting forensic reconstruction. Its lasting distinction lies in showing how microscopic traces on wallpaper, wax, and hair can overturn persuasive appearances and expose an ingenious method of murder.
This is a Large Print Edition: the complete work is presented in a 7-by-10-inch hardcover with 18-point body text.
Source features retained here include the first-edition cover facsimile, the three-part chart appearing within the last chapter, and the complete Transcriber's Notes. The chart is reproduced in grayscale from the source image and remains part of the evidence readers can examine alongside the text.
For collection development: this is a large-print edition intended for low-vision and aging patrons, and for any reader who finds standard trade print tiring over a long sitting. It suits large-print and accessibility collections, adult and young-adult general collections where the text is a standard, and reading-room copies where a durable case binding matters. The complete work is presented in a durable case-laminate hardcover. The text is unabridged and reproduced from a public-domain source without modernisation.
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This Clearview Editions hardcover is built on a production standard that significantly exceeds the industry norm for large-print publishing. The body text is set at 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next on 27-point leading, 1.5 line spacing. The leading North American large-print hardcover imprints typically set their body text at 16 point, and most large-print trade paperbacks release at 14 to 16 point. At 18 point, Clearview Editions sets its body text at a generous size, specifically for readers with low vision, macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, or any visual condition that makes standard trade print frustrating or impossible to read for long stretches. The trim size is equally generous. Clearview Editions is printed on a 7x10-inch page, 75 percent larger by area than a 5x8 trade paperback page.
The extra page area is deliberate: it allows the 18-point body to set at comfortable line lengths, without the narrow text columns and cramped margins that plague smaller-trim large-print books. The body font, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, was developed by the Braille Institute of America specifically to maximize letter recognition for readers with low vision, macular degeneration, and visual processing differences. It distinguishes between commonly-confused letter pairs - lowercase l versus uppercase I, the digit 0 versus uppercase O, b versus d, p versus q - using distinctive shape features that preserve readability even under eye strain. Text is set ragged right with no word division: The chosen design avoids justifying large-print text, since the uneven word spacing it creates is harder to track, and against breaking a word across a line ending, since the reader then has to reassemble it. The text of this edition is faithfully preserved from the original public-domain source with the full structural integrity of parts and chapters as the author intended, and every part and chapter is bookmarked in the PDF outline for readers using digital reading devices or reading software. Clearview Editions is an imprint of Nimble Books LLC. Clarity first.
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