- Paperback: 315 pages
- Publisher: House of Stratus; New edition edition (16 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1842323857
- ISBN-13: 978-1842323854
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 386,362 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The managing director of a large jewellery firm proposes a weekend board meeting at his Guildford home to sort out the firm's shaky affairs. On Sunday morning the guests discover that one of their number, the accountant, is dead. The police are suspicious. Then comes the news of a London jewellery heist. Inspector French is called in to investigate two connected mysteries.
About the Author
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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Detective and police procedural work in fiction nowadays is as much about extra-curricular conflict as it is about crime solving. Family life and partnerships are dysfunctional, colleagues are vicious, and superiors are likely to hand the case over to somebody else. As W S Gilbert would say, "A policeman's lot is not a happy one". By comparison Freeman Wills Croft's Detective Chief Inspector French of Scotland Yard had a very easy time in this 1935 "Golden Age" novel. Colleagues all spring into action willingly, his superior is entirely supportive, his marriage is stable, and he is free to devote all his energies to pure detective work.
His investigation is into the affairs of Nornes Ltd, a large firm of jewellers. The managing director proposes a weekend board meeting in his comfortable house at Guildford, south of London, to discuss the ways of heading off the threat of bankruptcy. When the guests prepare to settle to work on Sunday morning it is discovered that one of their number has died during the night. Several days later comes the news of the theft of half a million pounds' worth of jewels in London.
Inspector French works to solve two interconnected mysteries: how did the death occur and how were the jewels stolen. A tad of good luck and weeks of patient alibi checking and site scrutinizing lead to the solution, the cut to the chase, and the final page of a satisfying vintage crime novel.
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When a policeman's lot was a happy one.
12 July 2003
Detective and police procedural work in fiction nowadays is as much about extra-curricular conflict as it is about crime solving. Family life and partnerships are dysfunctional, colleagues are vicious, and superiors are likely to hand the case over to somebody else. As W S Gilbert would say, "A policeman's lot is not a happy one". By comparison Freeman Wills Croft's Detective Chief Inspector French of Scotland Yard had a very easy time in this 1935 "Golden Age" novel. Colleagues all spring into action willingly, his superior is entirely supportive, his marriage is stable, and he is free to devote all his energies to pure detective work.
His investigation is into the affairs of Nornes Ltd, a large firm of jewelers. The managing director proposes a weekend board meeting in his comfortable house at Guildford, south of London, to discuss the ways of heading off the threat of bankruptcy. When the guests prepare to settle to work on Sunday morning it is discovered that one of their number has died during the night. Several days later comes the news of the theft of half a million pounds' worth of jewels in London.
Inspector French works to solve two interconnected mysteries: how did the death occur and how were the jewels stolen. A tad of good luck and weeks of patient alibi checking and site scrutinizing lead to the solution, the cut to the chase, and the final page of a satisfying vintage crime novel.
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