Inspector French #12: Inspector French and the Mystery on Southampton Water

Inspector French #12: Inspector French and the Mystery on Southampton Water
Freeman Wills Crofts
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 352pg
2 Sep 2020 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780008393274
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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.

#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

' 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.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008393274
Published: 2 Sep 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Collins Crime Club
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 352

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