Born in 1879, Freeman Wills Crofts was an Irish engineer and one of the preeminent writers of Golden Age detective fiction. Educated in Belfast, he was apprenticed at eighteen to his uncle, who was chief engineer of the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway. Marrying in 1912, he was to hold various positions in railway engineering before becoming Chief Assistant Engineer, and it was during an illness-induced absence from work that he wrote his first novel, The Cask (1920), which became an international success. Considered a classic of the detective genre, it was followed by a steady production of more than thirty novels, most of which featured the meticulous Inspector French of Scotland Yard. An influential and key pioneer of the genre, Crofts became an early member of the legendary Detection Club in London along with Agatha Christie, Anthony Berkeley and other established mystery writers. He also wrote numerous plays for the BBC, dozens of short stories, a number of true crime works, and a religious book. Known for tight plots and scrupulous attention to detail, his work set new standards in detective fiction plotting. In 1939, the author was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In retirement from engineering he continued to write and pursued music, carpentry, gardening and travel. He died in 1957.
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Groote Park Murder
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Pit-Prop Syndicate
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 passin …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Cask
"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, shatt …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: The Cask
Although Crofts is best remembered for his detective Joseph French, who he introduced in his fifth book, the first book, The Cask, remains one of his most important works, hugely popular at the time, …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Antidote to Venom
In an English city zoo a murderer plans to use snake venom to kill an old professor, hoping to inherit a fortune. In this unusual detective story we are shown the planning of the crime. When Inspecto …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Mystery in the Channel
The cross-channel steamer Chichester stops half way to France. A motionless yacht lies in her path. When a party clambers aboard they find a trail of blood and two dead men. Chief Constable Turnbill …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: The Box Office Murders
A girl employed in the box office of a London cinema falls into the power of a mysterious trio of crooks. A helpful solicitor sends her to Scotland Yard. There she tells Inspector French the story of …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: The Hog’s Back Mystery
The Hog's Back is a ridge in Surrey and the setting for the disappearance of several locals. A doctor vanishes, followed by a nurse with whom he was acquainted, then a third person. Inspector Fre …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: The 12.30 from Croydon
1930s, somewhere over the English Channel: a family from Yorkshire is on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris – but by the time the plane lands, Andrew Crowther, a wealthy retired manufacturer, is …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: The Cask
THIS book introduced to the public a new Master of Detective Fiction, and Mr. Crofts is now a very famous name indeed to the many enthusiastic students of detective novels. It has all the great virtu …
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Margery Allingham & Agatha Christie: Six Against the Yard
A unique anthology for crime aficionados – six ‚perfect murder‘ stories written by the most accomplished crime writers of the 1930s, designed to fox real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Cornish, wh …
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Freeman Wills Crofts & Francis Iles: Anatomy of Murder
A unique anthology for crime aficionados – seven of the world’s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation.A manipulative murder …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Ponson Case
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‚The King of Detective Story Writers‘ and recognised as one of the ‚big four‘ Golden Age crime aut …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Groote Park Murder
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.When a s …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Cask
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 author …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Pit-Prop Syndicate
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third standalone novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, dubbed ‚The King of Detective Story Writers‘.Seymour Merriman’s holiday in France comes to an abrupt halt when …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy
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 …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French and the Sea Mystery
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 …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French and the Box Office Murders
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 …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French: Sir John Magill’s Last Journey
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, t …
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Margery Allingham & Anthony Berkeley: Six Against the Yard
Six “perfect murders” by Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other Golden Age Mystery authors of the Detection Club—plus an essay by Agatha Christie. Founded in England …
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Anthony Berkeley & G. K. Chesterton: Floating Admiral
It’s “great fun” when a baker’s dozen of Golden Age authors collaborate on a whodunit—including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton (The G …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Cask
A strange container is found on the London docks, and its contents point to murder The cask from Paris is bigger than the rest, its sides reinforced to hold the extraordinary weight within. As the lo …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Pit-Prop Syndicate
Stranded on a French highway, a wine merchant discovers a conspiracy Twenty-six kilometers from Bordeaux, Seymour Merriman’s motorcycle runs low on gas. He is waiting for a passing motorist to …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French: Man Overboard!
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 t …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French: Death on the Way
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 t …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French and the Loss of the ‚Jane Vosper‘
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 t …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French: Sudden Death
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 t …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French and the Crime at Guildford
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 t …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French and the Mystery on Southampton Water
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 t …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French’s Greatest Case
When a dead man is found in a diamond merchant’s office in London, with missing jewels, the inspector in launched on a complicated case that takes him across Europe in search of the villains responsi …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: The Ponson Case
Inspector Tanner unravels one of the most complicated cases of his career, as he doggedly pursues a murder investigation. A classic Golden Age police procedural. …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French: Fatal Venture
A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, ‚The King of Detective Story Writers‘, featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.When Morrison first heard of old Stott’s idea to purchase a …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French: Found Floating
This special expanded edition of Freeman Wills Crofts‘ classic crime novel includes a unique commentary by Superintendent Walter Hambrook of Scotland Yard, never before published in book form.The Car …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French: The End of Andrew Harrison
A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, ‚The King of Detective Story Writers‘, featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Becoming the social secretary for millionaire financier And …
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Crofts, Freeman Wills: The Cheyne Mystery
When the White Rabbit in Alice asked where he should begin to read the verses at the Knave’s trial the King replied: “Begin at the beginning; go on till you come to the end; then stop.” This would se …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French: Golden Ashes
A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, ‚The King of Detective Story Writers‘, featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.The new Sir Geoffrey Buller is earning his living in Chicag …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French: James Tarrant, Adventurer
A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, ‚The King of Detective Story Writers‘, featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.James Tarrant wants to make a lot of money. But as an assis …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French: The Affair at Little Wokeham
A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, ‚The King of Detective Story Writers‘, featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Money – or lack of it – can be, to certain members of socie …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French: A Losing Game
A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, ‚The King of Detective Story Writers‘, featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Moneylender Albert Reeve has added blackmail to his activit …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French: Fear Comes to Chalfont
A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, ‚The King of Detective Story Writers‘, featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Julia Elton, mistress of Chalfont, is the dutiful wife of a …
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Crofts, Freeman Wills: The Hog’s Back Mystery
“Ursula! I am glad to see you!” Julia Earle moved forward to the carriage door to greet the tall, well-dressed woman who stepped down on the platform of the tiny station of Ash in Surrey. “Julia! Thi …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French’s Greatest Case
Inspector French’s Greatest Case is a 1924 mystery detective novel by Freeman Wills Crofts . It in his series of novels featuring Inspector French , a Scotland Yard detective of the Golden Age known …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: The Cask
‚The Cask‘ is a mystery novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, originally published in 1920. The story follows the investigation of a murder case involving a mysterious cask of wine, which disappears from th …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: The Pit-Prop Syndicate
‚The Pit-Prop Syndicate‘ by Freeman Wills Crofts is a classic detective novel published in 1922. It features Inspector French of Scotland Yard, who is tasked with investigating a suspicious railway a …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: The Starvel Hollow Tragedy
When fire strikes the home of her miserly uncle, his ward, Ruth Averill, is spared solely by a chance invitaiton from friends. When her uncle’s body is pulled from the charred ruins the next day, the …
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Dave Zeltserman & S.J. Rozan: Black Cat Weekly #97
Our 97th issue is brimming with interesting items. On the mystery front, Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken has discovered a brand-new story from Dave Zeltserman for us, while Acquiring Editor Barb Gof …
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Crofts, Freeman Wills: The Starvel Hollow tragedy
Ruth Averill moved slowly across the drawing room at Starvel, and stood dejectedly at the window, looking out at the Scotch firs swaying in the wind and the sheets of rain driving across the untidy l …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Starvel Hollow Tragedy An Inspector French Case
When the almost cremated remains of its three inmates are discovered an inquest is held and a verdict of accidental death arrived at. However, some weeks later an incident occurs which arouses suspic …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Pit-Prop Syndicate
Following a lorry to find fuel, he discovers that it belongs to an English company making timber pit-props for coal mines back home. His suspicions of illegal activity are aroused when he sees the ex …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French’s Greatest Case
A robbery of the safe of a diamond merchant in London’s Hatton Garden leaves one of the firm’s veteran employees dead. Summoned to handle the case French pursues disparate clues over a number of week …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French and the Sea Mystery
When a dead body is found at sea, the case can only be solved by the astute Inspector French, and his most discerning readers, in this Golden Age mystery. A mysterious shipping crate is hauled …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: The Complete Works of Freeman Wills Crofts
The Complete Works of Freeman Wills Crofts This Complete Collection includes the following titles: ——– 1 – The Pit Prop Syndicate 2 – The Cask 3 – Inspector French’s greatest case 4 – The Starve …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Ponson Case
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‚The King of Detective Story Writers‘. When the body of Sir William Ponson is found in the Cransha …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Sea Mystery, An Inspector French Detective Story
The Sea Mystery is a 1928 detective novel by Freeman Wills Crofts. It is the fourth in a series of novels featuring Inspector French of Scotland Yard. As with a number of his works Crofts creates a p …
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Crofts, Freeman Wills: The sea mystery
The Burry Inlet, on the south coast of Wales, looks its best from the sea. At least so thought Mr. Morgan as he sat in the sternsheets of his boat, a fishing-line between his fingers, while his son, …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French’s Greatest Case
The Scotland Yard inspector is on the trail of a murderous jewel thief in this classic detective novel from the Golden Age of Mystery. Duke and Peabody is one of the most prestigious diamond merchant …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery
A deadly secret from World War I sends the Scotland Yard inspector across Europe in this classic detective mystery. After surviving the Great War, Maxwell Cheyne hoped to resume a peaceful life in En …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy
A deadly house fire causes a fortune to go up in smoke in this classic mystery novel by the author of The Cask. A tragic fire in Starvel Hollow has left behind a heap of smoldering ruins. An old man …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Sein schwerster Fall
Inspektor Joseph French steht vor seiner größten Herausforderung in ‚Sein schwerster Fall‘ von Freeman Wills Crofts. Als eine renommierte Juwelenfirma in London ausgeraubt wird und wertvolle Diamante …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French’s Greatest Case
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the first Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‚The King of Detective Story Writers‘.THE FIRST INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERYAt the offices of th …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the second Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‚The King of Detective Story Writers‘.THE RETURN OF INSPECTOR FRENCHWhen young Maxwell Chey …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: The Box Office Murders
Inspector Joseph French faces his most perplexing case yet when a young cinema box office clerk disappears after confiding her fears to Scotland Yard. As French investigates, he uncovers a sinister p …
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Freeman Wills Crofts: Starvel Hollow tragedy An Inspector French case
The Starvel Hollow: An Inspector French Case Tragedy by Freeman Wills Crofts is a gripping detective novel that features the meticulous Inspector French. Set in the early 20th century, this mystery d …
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