Inspector French and the Sea Mystery

By Freeman Wills Crofts

Book Overview

'Inspector French is as near the real thing as any sleuth in fiction' The Sunday Times 'A first-rate tale' The New Statesman 'A capitally knit tale' Boston Transcript One autumn evening, just off the coast of Wales, an amateur fisherman and his son come across a sunken crate. Mild curiosity prompts them to open it. Horror sends them to the police. The crate is soon in the hands of Scotland Yard and the partly decomposed body it contains starts Inspector French on one of the most baffling and dangerous assignments of his career. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Freeman Wills Crofts, the 'King of Detective Story Writers', was one of the pre-eminent writers in the golden age of British crime fiction. Acclaimed by his contemporaries, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, he wrote more than thirty detective novels and was a founder member of the hugely influential Detection Club . Crofts's most famous creation was Scotland Yard detective, Inspector French ('As near the real thing as any sleuth in fiction' The Sunday Times ). Born in Dublin, Crofts became an engineer and wrote his debut novel, The Cask: A Detective Story ('An imaginatively ingenious mystery' The Evening Standard ) in 1919 during a long absence from work due to illness. He became a full-time writer in 1929 and moved to England with his wife Mary to live in Guildford. He died in 1957. PRAISE FOR FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS'S 'INSPECTOR FRENCH' NOVELS 'Exactly what a detective novel should be - ingenious, lucid, reasonable, intricate and exciting' The Daily Telegraph 'With every fresh detective story Mr Freeman Wills Crofts displays new fields of specialist knowledge. Nobody takes more trouble to get every detail absolutely correct. The most workmanlike of sleuths unravels really satisfying puzzles' The Daily Mail 'Inspector French at his indefatigable best' The Guardian 'Another instance of Mr Crofts's unfailing ingenuity' Times Literary Supplement 'Excellent. He constructs his alibi with immense elaboration' Dorothy L. Sayers 'Inspector French... good, sound absorbing Crofts' The Observer 'To me Inspector French is the most human sleuth to be found in detective novels' Punch 'As pretty a piece of work as Inspector French has done' E.C. Bentley .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CYLLTVLX
• ISBN13: 9798320118079
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 235 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"