Sir John Magill's Last Journey - An Inspector French Mystery

Informationen zum Autor Once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers', Freeman Wills Crofts was an Irish railway engineer whose brilliant first mystery novel, The Cask, was motivated by an extended illness in 1919. Outselling Agatha Christie, and renowned for his ingenious plotting and meticulous attention to detail, Crofts followed up with The Ponson Case (1921) and no less than thirty books featuring the iconic Scotland Yard detective, Inspector French. Klappentext A MURDER MYSTERY WITHOUT A CLUE When Sir John Magill, the wealthy Irish industrialist, fails to show up at his home town on a well-publicised visit, neither his family nor the Belfast police can explain his disappearance. Foul play is suspected when his bloodstained hat is discovered, and Scotland Yard is called in. With his characteristic genius for reconstruction, Inspector French evolves a gruesome theory about what happened to the elderly man, but his reputation ¿ and that of Scotland Yard ¿ will depend on finding out who was responsible . . . Zusammenfassung From the Collins Crime Club archive, the sixth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.

Product details

• Authors: Freeman Will Crofts, Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Wills Crofts
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.03.2017
• EAN: 9780008190736
• ISBN: 978-0-00-819073-6
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Inspector French Mystery; Inspector French
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, Crime and mystery fiction