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* AluminumChristmasTrees: In ''Mr. Pottermack's Oversight'', a character is able to obtain human remains for a substitution by buying an Egyptian mummy at auction with no paper trail, which was apparently perfectly possible in the 1930s.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The first Thorndyke story, ''The Red Thumb-mark'' (and mentioned again in some others) is principally about Freeman proving that RealLife juries tend to be too trusting of fingerprint evidence when it is easy to fake, and that innocent people may have been imprisoned as a result. The cupidity of everyone except Thorndyke to take fingerprint evidence at face value is repeatedly rammed home. It's also noted that [[TheCSIEffect villains being aware of this]] just makes them more likely to use faked fingerprints to their advantage.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The first Thorndyke story, ''The Red Thumb-mark'' (and mentioned again in some others) is principally about Freeman proving that RealLife juries tend to be too trusting of fingerprint evidence when it is easy to fake, and that innocent people may have been imprisoned as a result. The cupidity of everyone except Thorndyke to take fingerprint evidence at face value is repeatedly rammed home. It's also noted that [[TheCSIEffect villains being aware of this]] just makes them more likely to use faked fingerprints to their advantage.
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* ValuesDissonance and ValuesResonance:
** Freeman had conservative views even for his time on many matters (particularly social class) but also tended to depict black characters more positively than many contemporary authors, largely due to his past in West Africa.
** In a peculiar example, he tended to combine ''stated'' StayInTheKitchen views of women with writing stronger female characters than some modern authors!
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** Freeman had conservative views even for his time on many matters (particularly social class) but also tended to depict black characters more positively than many contemporary authors, largely due to his past in West Africa.
** In a peculiar example, he tended to combine ''stated'' StayInTheKitchen views of women with writing stronger female characters than some modern authors!
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