Inspector French #05: Inspector French and the Box Office Murders

Inspector French #05: Inspector French and the Box Office Murders
Freeman Wills Crofts
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 240pg
9 Mar 2017 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9780008190705
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From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fifth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ' The King of Detective Story Writers' . THE PUZZLE OF THE PURPLE SICKLEThe suicide of a sales clerk at the box office of a London cinema leaves another girl in fear for her life. Persuaded to seek help from Scotland Yard, Miss Darke confides in Inspector Joseph French about a gambling scam by a mysterious trio of crooks and that she believes her friend was murdered. When the girl fails to turn up the next day, and the police later find her body, French' s inquiries reveal that similar girls have also been murdered, all linked by their jobs and by a sinister stranger with a purple scar . . .

#01: Inspector French's Greatest Case
#02: Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery
#03: Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy
#04: Inspector French and the Sea Mystery
#05: Inspector French and the Box Office Murders
#06: Sir John Magill's Last Journey
#08: Sudden Death
#09: Death on the Way
#12: Inspector French and the Mystery on Southampton Water
#13: Inspector French and the Crime at Guildford
#14: Inspector French and the Loss of the 'Jane Vosper'
#15: Man Overboard!
#16: Found Floating
#18: End of Andrew Harrison, The
#19: Fatal Venture
#20: Golden Ashes
#21: James Tarrant, Adventurer
#22: A Losing Game
#23: Fear Comes to Chalfont
#24: Affair at Little Wokeham, The

' Freeman Wills Crofts' crimes are solved with dogged diligence and attention to detail . . . they seem to have improved with age. ' INDEPENDENT"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 NICHOLSON, DAILY EXPRESS
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.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780008190705
Published: 9 Mar 2017
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Collins Crime Club
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 170g
Pages: 240

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