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The Starvel Hollow Tragedy

First published: 1927
Pages: 220

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The Tragedy
23:38
The Inquest
23:39
Mr. Tarkington Develops a Theory
23:39
Inspector French Goes North
29:15
French Picks Up a Scent
25:07
Talloires, Lac D’Annecy
24:50
Posthumous Evidence
25:46
Dr. Philpot’s Story
24:26
The Value of Analysis
20:19
Whymper Speaks at Last
28:15
A Startling Theory
22:01
A Somewhat Gruesome Chapter
29:51
The Piece of Yellow Clay
20:07
The Secret of The Moor
20:31
French Baits His Trap
24:33
A Double Recall
16:20
Concerning Wedding Rings
27:20
Cumulative Evidence
17:09
The Last Lap
21:50
Conclusion
19:46

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A fire guts a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors, and three charred bodies are pulled from the ashes: the miserly old recluse who lived there and two of his servants. Local authorities rule it a dreadful accident, but when a banknote traced to the dead man's hoard turns up in circulation, Scotland Yard's Inspector Joseph French is sent north to explain how money that should have burned came to be spent. Crofts builds the case the way he once built railway lines, patiently and to scale, testing every alibi and timetable until the fraud behind the flames comes clear. Ruth Averill, the old man's orphaned niece, stands to inherit and to lose the most. This Golden Age detective classic is available here as a free PDF and EPUB edition.

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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.