The Cask: 100th Anniversary Edition (detective Club Crime Classics)

by Freeman Wills Crofts

2020-11-23 09:12:51

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the seminal first novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ''The King of Detective Story Writers'' and recognised as one of the ''big four'' Golden Age crime authors.The unloading of a consignment of French wine... Read more
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the seminal first novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ''The King of Detective Story Writers'' and recognised as one of the ''big four'' Golden Age crime authors.The unloading of a consignment of French wine from the steamship Bullfinch is interrupted by a gruesome discovery in a broken cask leaking sawdust and gold sovereigns. But when the shipping clerk returns with the police, the cask and its macabre contents have gone. Following the clues to Paris, Inspector Burnley of Scotland Yard enlists the help of the genial French detective M. Lefarge to check motives and alibis in their hunt for evidence of a particularly fiendish murder.This Detective Story Club classic is introduced by Freeman Wills Crofts himself in a unique preface from 1946 about The Cask''s origins. Less

Book Details

File size7.8 X 5.08 X 0.07 in
Print pages368
PublisherHARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Publication date May 12, 2020
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780008333942
Freeman Wills Crofts FRSA (1 June 1879 – 11 April 1957) was an Irish mystery author, best remembered for the character of Inspector Joseph French. A railway engineer by training, Crofts introduce...

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