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'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... Read Full Overview

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fourth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'.

THE BODY THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE

Off the coast of Burry Port in south Wales, two fishermen discover a shipping crate... Read Full Overview

Two fishermen haul a mysterious shipping crate ashore off the coast of Burry Port in South Wales, where they discover a brutally murdered, decaying corpse inside. The local police, perplexed by the lack of leads, called in Inspector French of Scotland Yard, one of the Criminal... Read Full Overview

Dive into a classic police procedural with Freeman Wills Crofts' "The Sea Mystery," an Inspector French detective story. Follow the meticulous Inspector French as he unravels a perplexing crime in this compelling mystery. A master of the genre, Crofts delivers a meticulously... Read Full Overview

Dive into a classic police procedural with Freeman Wills Crofts' "The Sea Mystery," an Inspector French detective story. Follow the meticulous Inspector French as he unravels a perplexing crime in this compelling mystery. A master of the genre, Crofts delivers a meticulously... Read Full Overview

A luxury yacht vanishes without a trace off the coast of England, leaving behind only an ocean of unanswered questions. Weeks later, the bodies of the yacht's crew are found along the shoreline, but the vessel itself remains curiously absent. As baffling as the disappearance... Read Full Overview

A luxury yacht vanishes without a trace off the coast of England, leaving behind only an ocean of unanswered questions. Weeks later, the bodies of the yacht's crew are found along the shoreline, but the vessel itself remains curiously absent. As baffling as the disappearance... Read Full Overview