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The Sea Mystery

First published: 1928
Pages: 195

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Mr. Morgan Meets Tragedy
25:56
Inspector French Gets Busy
28:06
Experimental Detection
27:27
A Change of Venue
25:47
Messrs, Berlyn and Pyke
18:44
The Despatch Of The Crate
17:17
Dartmoor
30:52
A Fresh Start
25:26
A Step Forward
24:50
London's Further Contribution
24:55
John Gurney, Night Watchman
18:22
The Duplicator
30:24
The Accomplice?
30:24
French Turns Fisherman
24:31
Blackmail
25:20
Certainty At Last
20:17
"Danger!"
29:01
On Hampstead Heath
24:46
The Bitterness of Death
41:18
Conclusion
23:28

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In this 1928 Inspector French case, a fishing trip off the Welsh coast turns grim when two men haul up a wooden crate and find a battered body sealed inside. With the victim disfigured beyond easy recognition, French faces the hardest part first: giving the dead man a name. From that single crate he works outward, tracing timber, shipping, and the small commercial details most people never notice, until the chain leads back to a coldly planned crime. It is Crofts at his most characteristic, a patient reconstruction that turns dull-sounding evidence into a tightening net. 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.