The mutilated body of Albert Smith is found lying beside the railway line at the north end of the Dartie Tunnel near Groote Park. A passing train has hit him. Although his death appears straightforward, Inspector Vandam isn’t satisfied that it is accidental. When his suspicions are justified he embarks on a baffling mystery.
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Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin in 1879 and died in 1957. He worked for a Northern Irish railway company as an engineer until 1929, before turning to detective fiction His plots reveal his mathematical training and he specialised in the seemingly unbreakable alibi, laying layer upon layer within his stories. He loved ships and trains and the intricacies of transport timetables feature in many of his stories. Crofts’ best-known character is Inspector Joseph French. French appears for the first time in Inspector French’s Greatest Case. He is a detective who achieves his results through dogged persistence.
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