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  • Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy

  • Inspector French Mystery, Book 3
  • By: Freeman Wills Crofts
  • Narrated by: Phil Fox
  • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy

By: Freeman Wills Crofts
Narrated by: Phil Fox
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Publisher's summary

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.

THREE CORPSES FOR INSPECTOR FRENCH

A chance invitation from friends saves Ruth Averill’s life on the night her uncle’s old house in Starvel Hollow is consumed by fire, killing him and incinerating the fortune he kept in cash. Dismissed at the inquest as a tragic accident, the case is closed – until Scotland Yard is alerted to the circulation of bank-notes supposedly destroyed in the inferno. Inspector Joseph French suspects that dark deeds were done in the Hollow that night and begins to uncover a brutal crime involving arson, murder and body snatching . . .

©1927 Estate of Freeman Wills Crofts (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
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Critic reviews

“Freeman Wills Crofts is the only author who gives us intricate crime in fiction as it might really be, and not as the irreflective would like it to be.” OBSERVER

“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 NICOLSON, DAILY EXPRESS

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A lapse in an otherwise excellent series. A whole section of French telling two suspects to cough up or he’ll arrest them. No you won’t yes I will not really yes really tell me the truth no I can’t yes you can phew the rest was ok but not one of his brilliant ones.

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