The Pit-Prop Syndicate - Softcover

Crofts, Freeman Wills

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1690775203 ISBN 13: 9781690775201

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

•Freeman Wills Crofts, the ‘King of Detective Story Writers’, was one of the pre-eminent writers in the golden age of British crime fiction.•‘Has lost nothing in the passage of time: indeed, it seems almost better than ever… one of the classics of modern crime fiction’ NEW YORK TIMES•‘An ingenious detective story’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT•Includes all the original illustrations, which are critical to the plot. Seymour Merriman, junior partner in a firm of London wine merchants, is motorcycling across the French countryside from Bordeaux to Avignon, when he hears a truck in the distance. As it passes, he turns idly to watch it, noticing on it a brass plate with the words ‘The Landes Pit-Prop Syndicate, No. 4.’ This slight, almost involuntary action is to change his life, for one small detail about that truck will lead him into a deepening labyrinth of fraud, theft, and murder Here is another enthralling mystery by the creator of Inspector French.ABOUT THE AUTHORFreeman Wills Crofts, the ‘King of Detective Story Writers’, was one of the pre-eminent writers in the golden age of British crime fiction. Acclaimed by his contemporaries, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, he wrote more than 30 detective novels and was a founder member of the hugely influential DETECTIVE CLUB. Crofts’s most famous creation was Scotland Yard detective, Inspector French (‘As near the real thing as any sleuth in fiction’ THE SUNDAY TIMES). Born in Dublin, Crofts became an engineer and wrote his debut novel, THE CASK: A DETECTIVE STORY (‘An imaginatively ingenious mystery’ THE EVENING STANDARD) in 1919 during a long absence from work due to illness. He became a full-time writer in 1929 and moved to England with his wife Mary to live in Guildford. He died in 1957.PRAISE FOR FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS‘One of the classics of modern crime fiction’ NEW YORK TIMES‘Exactly what a detective novel should be – ingenious, lucid, reasonable, intricate and exciting’ THE DAILY TELEGRAPH‘The author who goes from strength to strength with every book he writes. The construction is flawless’ THE DAILY MAIL‘Yet another instance of his unfailing ingenuity’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT‘If there is a better writer of detective stories alive, I would like to know his name’ GLASGOW CITIZEN‘A detective novel by Freeman Wills Crofts is always an event’ THE DAILY EXPRESS‘Freeman Wills Crofts’ crimes are solved with dogged diligence and attention to detail… they seem to have improved with age.’ THE INDEPENDENT‘Supremely good’ YORKSHIRE POST‘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’ THE OBSERVER ‘Brilliant… will delight all lovers of detective fiction’ THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1690775203
• ISBN 13: 9781690775201
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 291