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    Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy
    Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy
    Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy
    Audiobook9 hours

    Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy

    Written by Freeman Wills Crofts

    Narrated by Phil Fox

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    About this audiobook

    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 FRENCH

    A chance invitation from friends saves Ruth Averill’s life on the night her uncle’s old house in Starvel Hollow is consumed by fire, killing him and incinerating the fortune he kept in cash. Dismissed at the inquest as a tragic accident, the case is closed – until Scotland Yard is alerted to the circulation of bank-notes supposedly destroyed in the inferno. Inspector Joseph French suspects that dark deeds were done in the Hollow that night and begins to uncover a brutal crime involving arson, murder and body snatching . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 12, 2017
    ISBN9780008190668
    Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy
    Author

    Freeman Wills Crofts

    Freeman Wills Crofts (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 introduced railway themes into many of his stories, which were notable for their intricate planning. Although outshone by Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler and other more celebrated authors from the golden age of detective fiction, he was highly esteemed by those authors, and many of his books are still in print.

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    • 4/5
      Some people really have an aversion to Inspector French and Freeman Wills Crofts. The usual problem seems to be that Crofts is a bit of a plodder, a bit on the dull side and with a tendency to not inspire very much. Frankly that's rather the appeal for me. I like the way that a crime takes a matter of months rather than weeks to solve. I like seeing dead ends and false leads. I like the fact that French gets there through hard work and diligence rather than unconvincing intuition or deductions. He's far from perfect - I have no idea what Crofts was thinking when he decided it would be endearing for French to be so obsessed with getting promoted - but at his best, which I really think he is in this book, he's easily one of the finest creations of the golden age.

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    • 3/5
      Rather a grim case -- isolated house burned down with apparently three deaths.