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Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy
- Inspector French Mystery, Book 3
- Narrated by: Phil Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy
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Publisher's Summary
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 . . .
Critic Reviews
“Freeman Wills Crofts is the only author who gives us intricate crime in fiction as it might really be, and not as the irreflective would like it to be.” OBSERVER
“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 NICOLSON, DAILY EXPRESS
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- oceanjasper
- 18-03-2018
Great fun
I has recently discovered Inspector French and I'm finding the books enormously entertaining. They are perfect for audio, as Phil Fox's expressive narration takes us through French's careful investigation of all possible leads until he discovers the truth. The 1920s setting makes a pleasant change from modern police procedurals with their emphasis on technology and trawling through a mass of data. These books are dated in a good way, with their portrait of an English way of life that is long gone.
This one has an intriguing mystery which takes a long time for French to unravel. I did guess the culprit, but then I second-guessed myself, such is the complexity of the solution. If you like the gentler pace of Golden Age detective stories, you'll enjoy this book.
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