About the Book

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.

A weekend board meeting brings a jewellery firm’s accountant to the managing director’s impressive Guildford home. On the Sunday morning, he is found dead and is soon the subject of a murder inquiry by the local police. Meanwhile, Chief Inspector French is investigating the sensational burglary of half a million pounds’ worth of jewels from the safe of an office in London’s Kingsway. French must determine the connection between the theft and the murder as he embarks on a perilous chase to track down the criminals.

Critical Praise

-

Resources

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780008393243
• ISBN 10: 0008393249
• Imprint: Collins Crime Club
• On Sale: 09/03/2020
• Pages: 336
• List Price:17.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
• BISAC2 : FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
• BISAC3 : FICTION / Crime
• BISAC4 : FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional
• BISAC5 : FICTION / Thrillers / Crime

Freeman Wills Crofts

Biography

Once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, Freeman Wills Crofts was an Irish railway engineer whose brilliant first mystery novel, The Cask, was motivated by an extended illness in 1919. Outselling Agatha Christie, and renowned for his ingenious plotting and meticulous attention to detail, Crofts followed up with The Ponson Case (1921) and no less than thirty books featuring the iconic Scotland Yard detective, Inspector French.

Other Works by Freeman Wills Crofts

• 

  Inspector French: Sudden Death

  By Freeman Wills Crofts

• 

  Inspector French and the Mystery on Southampton Water

  By Freeman Wills Crofts

• 

  Inspector French and the Crime at Guildford

  By Freeman Wills Crofts