Download or read book Inspector French s Greatest Case written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2022-11-20T20:09:50Z with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector French is called in by his Superintendent at Scotland Yard to investigate a late-night murder in the office of a Hatton Garden diamond merchants. When he gets there, he finds not just the corpse, but an open safe missing its contents of diamonds and money. Although the clues seem meager at first, French soon picks up a trail that leads him to mainland Europe and back, steadily bringing him closer to a solution to the case. This is the first in Freeman Wills Crofts’ long-running Inspector French series. French, a well mannered London detective, works through the crimes in front of him in a methodical way, peeling back the layers of intrigue and mystery to expose the core of the problem as much to the reader as to himself. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book Inspector French s Greatest Case written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scotland Yard inspector is on the trail of a murderous jewel thief in this classic detective novel from the Golden Age of Mystery. Duke and Peabody is one of the most prestigious diamond merchants in Hatton Garden, London’s famous jewelry district. But now the illustrious shop is showcasing a frightful scene. The body of one Mr. Gething has been discovered beside an empty safe. With numerous potential suspects, and little evidence left behind, it appears that a master criminal has gotten away with murder. Insp. Joseph French of Scotland Yard will not rest until he has cracked the case. Embarking on an investigation that takes him from London to Holland, France to Spain, French’s meticulous logic and dogged sleuthing eventually leads him aboard a ship bound for South America . . .
Download or read book Inspector French s Greatest Case written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector French is called in by his Superintendent at Scotland Yard to investigate a late-night murder in the office of a Hatton Garden diamond merchants. When he gets there, he finds not just the corpse, but an open safe missing its contents of diamonds and money. Although the clues seem meager at first, French soon picks up a trail that leads him to mainland Europe and back, steadily bringing him closer to a solution to the case. This is the first in Freeman Wills Crofts’ long-running Inspector French series. French, a well mannered London detective, works through the crimes in front of him in a methodical way, peeling back the layers of intrigue and mystery to expose the core of the problem as much to the reader as to himself.
Download or read book Inspector French s Greatest Case Large Print written by Freeman Crofts and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inspector French s Greatest Case written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by Collins. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Collins Crime Club archive, the first Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'.
Download or read book Inspector French s Greatest Case written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector French is the central figure in many books by Mr. Crofts. This, his greatest case, opens with the discovery beside the open safe of a diamond merchant in Hatton Garden of the dead body of his head clerk, and valuable diamonds are missing. There are many people to suspect, and before Inspector French solves it, he has to unravel many mysteries and follow up many false clues
Download or read book Inspector French s Greatest Case written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by . This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERY. The burning down of Simon Averill's house, Starvel Hollow, appears at first to be an accident. The house has been reduced to ash, killing three people (including its owner) and incinerating the contents of the safe in which he kept his entire fortune in cash (over thirty thousand pounds). But when one of these notes appears in circulation, surely it cannot be an accident? Once again, Inspector French doggedly pursues the trail across Europe before finally unlocking the mystery when all appears to be lost.
Download or read book Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deadly secret from World War I sends the Scotland Yard inspector across Europe in this classic detective mystery. After surviving the Great War, Maxwell Cheyne hoped to resume a peaceful life in England, but danger has followed him home. A ruthless gang will stop at nothing to retrieve a letter from his possession which holds a mysterious code. Cheyne is no stranger to violent confrontation, and he’s prepared to fight back. But when an innocent woman is kidnapped, he turns to Scotland Yard for help. Insp. Joseph French will stop at nothing to bring the woman to safety, following the trail of clues from London to Bruges to Antwerp. But it soon becomes clear that to solve the case he must crack the letter’s code . . . for the criminals have set sail on an expedition with their captive in tow. Originally published in 1926, Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery is the second novel to feature Freeman Wills Croft’s famous detective, following Inspector French’s Greatest Case.
Download or read book Inspector French s written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1978-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hog s Back Mystery written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder 'As pretty a piece of work as Inspector French has done... On the level of Mr Crofts' very best; which is saying something.' —Daily Telegraph Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage, Inspector French is called in to investigate. At first he suspects a simple domestic intrigue—and begins to uncover a web of romantic entanglements beneath the couple's peaceful rural life. The case soon takes a more complex turn. Other people vanish mysteriously, one of Dr Earle's house guests among them. What is the explanation for the disappearances? If the missing people have been murdered, what can be the motive? This fiendishly complicated puzzle is one that only Inspector French can solve. Freeman Wills Crofts was a master of the intricately and ingeniously plotted detective novel, and The Hog's Back Mystery shows him at the height of his powers. This new edition of a classic mystery is introduced by the crime fiction expert Martin Edwards.
Download or read book The Cheyne Mystery written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Cheyne Mystery" by Freeman Wills Crofts. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Death on the Way written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by House of Stratus Limited. This book was released on 2000-10-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work on the widening of the Southern Railway's south coast route results in two mysterious deaths. Murder becomes apparent. As evidence is sifted through and minute detail and data analysed, tension mounts ...
Download or read book Morse s Greatest Mystery and Other Stories written by Colin Dexter and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morse had solved so many mysteries in his life. Was he now, he wondered, beginning to glimpse the solution to the greatest mystery of them all . . . ? How can the discovery of a short story by a beautiful Oxford graduate lead Chief Inspector Morse to her murderer? What awaits Morse and Lewis in Room 231 of the Randolph Hotel? Why does a theft at Christmas lead the detective to look upon the festive season with uncharacteristic goodwill? And what happens when Morse himself falls victim to a brilliantly executed crime? Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories is a dazzling collection of short stories from Inspector Morse's creator, Colin Dexter. It includes six ingenious cases for the world's most popular fictional detective – plus five other tantalizingly original tales to delight all lovers of classic crime fiction.
Download or read book Inspector French and the Box Office Murders Inspector French Book 5 written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fifth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.
Download or read book A Rule Against Murder written by Louise Penny and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2009-01-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the series that inspired Three Pines on Prime Video. A Rule Against Murder, the fourth book in Louise Penny's award-winning and critical revered mystery series features the wise and beleaguered Inspector Armand Gamache. It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But they're not alone. The Finney family—rich, cultured, and respectable—has also arrived for a celebration of their own. The beautiful Manoir Bellechasse might be surrounded by nature, but there is something unnatural looming. As the heat rises and the humidity closes in, some surprising guests turn up at the family reunion, and a terrible summer storm leaves behind a dead body. It is up to Chief Inspector Gamache to unearth secrets long buried and hatreds hidden behind polite smiles. The chase takes him to Three Pines, into the dark corners of his own life, and finally to a harrowing climax.
Download or read book The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Top Five Books LLC. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1921 to 1927, features his last 12 mysteries, including the only two stories narrated by Sherlock Holmes himself-"The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane." This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes includes all 57 illustrations by Howard Elcock, Alfred Gilbert, and Frank Wiles as they appeared in the original Strand serials, as well as a complete Timeline of Sherlock Holmes Cases and a detailed author biography.
