Inspector French and the Mystery on Southampton Water by Freeman Wills Crofts

Inspector French and the Mystery on Southampton Water by Freeman Wills Crofts

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. The Joymount Rapid Hardening Cement Manufacturing Company on the Solent is in serious financial trouble. Its rival, Chayle on the Isle of Wight, has a secret new manufacturing process and is underselling them. Having failed to crack the secret legitimately, two employees hatch a plot to break in and steal it. But the scheme does not go according to plan, resulting in damage and death, and Inspector French is brought in to solve one of the most dramatic and labyrinthine cases of his entire career.

‘Exactly what a detective novel should be – ingenious, lucid, reasonable, intricate and exciting’
Daily Telegraph

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.

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ISBN 13	9780008393274
ISBN 10	0008393273
Title	Inspector French and the Mystery on Southampton Water
Author	Freeman Wills Crofts
Series	Inspector French
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2020-09-03
Number of pages	352
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