Inspector French’s Greatest Case : Book 1

Author: Freeman Wills Crofts

Classic crime

Published on 17 November 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers (Collins Crime Club) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Inspector French' series.

Paperback | 304 pages
129 x 197 x 20mm | 214g

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 MYSTERY

At 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 . . .