Inspector French and the Sea Mystery, Freeman Wills Crofts
Inspector French and the Sea Mystery, Freeman Wills Crofts
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Inspector French and the Sea Mystery

Author: Freeman Wills Crofts

Narrator: Phil Fox

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 01/12/2017

Synopsis

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 and manage to haul it ashore. Inside is the decomposing body of a brutally murdered man. With nothing to indicate who he is or where it came from, the local police decide to call in Scotland Yard. Fortunately Inspector Joseph French does not believe in insoluble cases – there are always clues to be found if you know what to look for. Testing his theories with his accustomed thoroughness, French’s ingenuity sets him off on another investigation . . .

About Freeman Wills Crofts

The author, Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957), was ill for a prolonged period but spent time turning out his first novel in 1919. It caught on and he was soon recognized as a respected creator of detective fiction. That led to this book about Inspector French in 1924 and the Scotland Yard investigator became his favorite character. This was a big beginning for his literary work and he turned out a book practically every year over the next three decades.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay

This is about the tenth Freeman Wills Croft novel I have read and reviewed in the last year or so. I enjoy his puzzle, timetable & alibi busting element to his stories - although I think this may irritate some readers as some of the novels over do it a bit. This novel is a much better version of The......more

Goodreads review by Kirkwall

Not an awful lot of 'sea' in this story - more estuary ... I guess "The Estuary Mystery" might not have been so marketable. Early parts of the book plod (excuse the pun) as readers are slowly taken through Inspector French's (every, it seems) thought process. Perhaps the author was paid by the word?......more

Goodreads review by John

A marvelous example of a novel of pure detection. Superb !!......more

Goodreads review by Catullus2

Fun plot full of puzzles.......more

Goodreads review by Whistlers

Killing is easy, but getting rid of the body can be murder. Some credit American writer Hilary Waugh with creating the "police procedural" genre in 1949. I'm a great fan of Waugh, but Englishman Freeman Wills Crofts was cranking out his popular mysteries almost thirty years earlier and they were cert......more

Quotes

‘Inspector French is as near the real thing as any sleuth in fiction.’ SUNDAY TIMES “A detective novel by Mr. Wills Crofts is always an event to those who know … Mr. Crofts is among the few muscular writers of detective fiction. He has never let me down.”HAROLD NICOLSON, DAILY EXPRESS

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