The Pit-Prop Syndicate
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Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Thriller |
Publisher | Collins |
Publication date | 1922 |
Media type |
The Pit-Prop Syndicate is a 1922 thriller novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, one of the leading figures of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.[1] It was one of several stand-alone novels Crofts wrote following his successful debut The Cask, before creating the character of Inspector French who debuted in Inspector French's Greatest Case (1924).[2]
Synopsis
A boat notionally carrying pit props from the Gironde to the Humber is in fact engaging in illegal smuggling. This leads on to a murder in a London taxi and an investigation by the slow but sure Inspector Willis of Scotland Yard.
References
Bibliography
- Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
External links
- The Pit-Prop Syndicate at Project Gutenberg
- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/freeman-wills-crofts/the-pit-prop-syndicate
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