Mystery in the Channel is a classic crime novel with a strikingly modern sub-text. The story begins with a shocking discovery. The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yach
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
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
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
"One of the classics of modern crime fiction." — The New York Times While London dockworkers are struggling to unload a shipment of French wine, one of the heavy casks falls, shatte
Seymour Merriman, the junior partner in a firm of London wine merchants, is traveling by motorcycle from Avignon to Bordeaux when his vacation grinds to a sudden halt. Out of gas, he follows a passing
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 c
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the sixth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed `The King of Detective Story Writers'.A MURDER MYSTERY WITHOUT A CLUEWhen Sir John Magill, th
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed `The King of Detective Story Writers'.THREE CORPSES FOR INSPECTOR FRENCHA chance invitation f
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 NOWHEREOff the coast of Burry
The Chichester is making a routine journey across the English Channel on a pleasant afternoon in June, when the steamer’s crew notice something strange. A yacht, bobbing about in the water ahead of th
Crofts constructs his alibi with immense elaboration...The story is highly successful, and Mr Crofts is to be congratulated upon his experiment' - Dorothy L. SayersWe begin with a body. Andrew Crowthe
'As pretty a piece of work as Inspector French has done … On the level of Mr Crofts’ very best; which is saying something.’ – Daily TelegraphDr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion n
When Seymour Merriman stops at the side of the road outside Bordeaux, he did not know the adventure he was in for. The events that follow pull him into a world of mystery, smuggling, murder and love.
Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage, Inspector Fren
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
From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.
We begin with a body. Andrew Crowther, a wealthy retired manufacturer, is found dead in his seat on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris. Rather less orthodox is the ensuing flashback in which we li
