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Inspector French’s Greatest Case

First published: 1924
Pages: 204

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MURDER!
23:58
THE FIRM OF DUKE AND PEABODY
18:57
GATHERING THE THREADS
25:04
MISSING
24:41
FRENCH TAKES A JOURNEY
22:04
THE HOTEL IN BARCELONA
27:59
CONCERNING A WEDDING
20:20
SYLVIA AND HARRINGTON
18:56
MRS. ROOT OF PITTSBURG
24:40
SOME PAIRS OF BLANKETS
22:32
A DEAL IN JEWELLERY
22:15
THE ELUSIVE MRS. X.
25:54
MRS. FRENCH TAKES A NOTION
21:43
TRAGEDY
18:07
THE HOUSE IN ST. JOHN’S WOOD
25:34
A HOT SCENT
23:46
A DEAL IN STOCKS
25:59
THE S.S. “ENOCH”
24:10
FRENCH PROPOUNDS A RIDDLE
25:57
CONCLUSION
15:53

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Freeman Wills Crofts introduced his most famous detective in this 1924 mystery, the first of more than thirty cases for the patient, unglamorous Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard. It opens in the diamond district of Hatton Garden, where a merchant's safe has been emptied and a clerk lies dead. There is no flash of genius here, only French's steady legwork, which carries him from London to the Continent as he checks timetables, tests alibis, and follows the money. Crofts helped define the police procedural, and readers who enjoy watching a case built fact by patient fact will find the method absorbing. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available here.

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Freeman Wills Crofts

Freeman Wills Crofts (1879-1957) was an Irish-born railway engineer who began writing detective fiction while recovering from a long illness. A founding member of the Detection Club, he became a mainstay of the Golden Age and is best remembered for the methodical Inspector French.