From the Collins Crime Club archive, the second Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THE RETURN OF INSPECTOR FRENCHWhen young Maxwell Cheyne discovers that a series of mishaps are the result of unwelcome attention from a dangerous gang of criminals, he teams up with a young woman who is determined to help him outwit them. But when she disappears, he finally decides to go to Scotland Yard for help. Concerned by the developing situation, Inspector Joseph French takes charge of the investigation and applies his trademark methods to track down the kidnappers and thwart their intentions . . .
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Freeman Crofts Wills. Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery
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1. The Episode in the Plymouth Hotel
2. Burglary!
3. The Launch ‘Enid’
4. Concerning A Peerage
5. An Amateur Sleuth
6. The House in Hopefield Avenue
7. Miss Joan Merrill
8. A Council of War
9. Mr Speedwell Plays his Hand
10. The New Firm Gets Busy
11. Otto Schulz’s Secret
12. In the Enemy’s Lair
13. Inspector French Takes Charge
14. The Clue of the Clay-Marked Shoe
15. The Torn Hotel Bill
16. A Tale of Two Cities
17. On the Flood Tide
18. A Visitor from India
19. The Message of the Tracing
20. The Goal of the ‘L’Escaut’
Inspector French’s Greatest Case
Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy
Inspector French and the Sea Mystery
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He was lying, dressed, on a bed in a strange room. Apparently it was night, for the room was dark save for the light on the window blind which seemed to come from a street lamp without. Vaguely interested, he closed his eyes again, and when he reopened them the room was lighted, up and a man was standing beside the bed.
‘Ah,’ the man said, ‘you’re awake. Better, I hope?’
