Inspector French and the Sea Mystery
Written by Freeman Wills Crofts
Narrated by Phil Fox
4/5
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From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fourth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.
THE BODY THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE
Off the coast of Burry Port in south Wales, two fishermen discover a shipping crate and manage to haul it ashore. Inside is the decomposing body of a brutally murdered man. With nothing to indicate who he is or where it came from, the local police decide to call in Scotland Yard. Fortunately Inspector Joseph French does not believe in insoluble cases – there are always clues to be found if you know what to look for. Testing his theories with his accustomed thoroughness, French’s ingenuity sets him off on another investigation . . .
Freeman Wills Crofts
Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957) was an Irish author of detective fiction. Born in Dublin, he spent decades as a railroad engineer in Northern Ireland. When a long illness kept him away from work, he wrote The Cask (1920), a mystery novel that launched him to immediate popularity. He continued writing after he returned to work, finally leaving the railroad in 1929 to write full time. His best-known novels include The Starvel Hollow Tragedy (1927) and The 12:30 from Croydon (1934).
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic crime story and excellently read. Lots of twists and turns with some intriguing thought processes going on.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5To me, this story is a bit too close to the classic The Cask, as it also involves finding a dead body in a container, this time a crate in the sea. As usual it is competently handled by Inspector French.