Inspector French

Golden Ashes

Freeman Wills Crofts

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HARPER360
15 May 2023

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Classic crime; Historical mysteries; Thriller & suspense

Series: Inspector French

A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.

The new Sir Geoffrey Buller is earning his living in Chicago when he unexpectedly inherits his title, an English baronetcy, and Forde Manor in Surrey, complete with its vast collection of priceless works of art. His widowed housekeeper, who knows a thing or two, is surprised to discover that Sir Geoffrey is having his pictures cleaned. But then disaster strikes! A devastating fire, a missing artist and a lot of insurance money – from a mosaic of detail, Inspector French must reconstruct the pattern of a most cunning and complex crime…

By: Freeman Wills Crofts
Imprint: HARPER360
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: Book 16
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 210g
ISBN: 9780008554125
ISBN 10: 0008554129
Series: Inspector French
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers', Freeman Wills Crofts was an Irish railway engineer whose brilliant first mystery novel, The Cask, was motivated by an extended illness in 1919. Outselling Agatha Christie, and renowned for his ingenious plotting and meticulous attention to detail, Crofts followed up with The Ponson Case (1921) and no less than thirty books featuring the iconic Scotland Yard detective, Inspector French.

Reviews for Inspector French: Golden Ashes

A detective novel by Mr. Wills Crofts is always an event to those who know ... Mr. Crofts is among the few muscular writers of detective fiction. He has never let me down. HAROLD NICHOLSON, DAILY EXPRESS