From the Collins Crime Club archive, the first Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THE FIRST INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERYAt the offices of the Hatton Garden diamond merchant Duke and Peabody, the body of old Mr Gething is discovered beside a now-empty safe. With multiple suspects, the robbery and murder is clearly the work of a master criminal, and requires a master detective to solve it. Meticulous as ever, Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard embarks on an investigation that takes him from the streets of London to Holland, France and Spain, and finally to a ship bound for South America . . .
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Freeman Crofts Wills. Inspector French’s Greatest Case
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INTRODUCTION. Meet Chief-Inspector French
1. Murder!
2. The Firm of Duke and Peabody
3. Gathering the Threads
4. Missing
5. French Takes a Journey
6. The Hotel in Barcelona
7. Concerning a Wedding
8. Sylvia and Harrington
9. Mrs Root of Pittsburg
10. Some Pairs of Blankets
11. A Deal in Jewellery
12. The Elusive Mrs X
13. Mrs French Takes a Notion
14. Tragedy
15. The House in St John’s Wood
16. A Hot Scent
17. A Deal in Stocks
18. The S.S. ‘Enoch’
19. French Propounds a Riddle
20. Conclusion
Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery
About the Author
Also in this Series
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The superintendent seemed to find the other’s easy familiarity out of place.
‘Good-evening, Inspector,’ he answered with official abruptness. ‘You know Dr Jordan?—Inspector French of the C.I.D. And this is Mr Orchard, a clerk in this office, who discovered the crime.’
