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Freeman Wills Crofts

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One of the great pioneers of the Golden Age of detective fiction, Freeman Wills Crofts is best remembered today as the creator of Inspector French. Crofts’ innovative approach to mystery novel-writing introduced the ‘police procedural’ and a level of grounded realism that contrasted sharply with the flamboyant, intuitive sleuths of his time. Before Crofts, detective fiction was dominated by brilliant amateurs like Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot. These characters relied on flashes of genius, psychological intuition or esoteric knowledge. Crofts shifted the focus from individual eccentricity to methodical, realistic police work. His novels proved that the mechanics of a real investigation could hold a reader’s interest. By blending the intellectual puzzle of the Golden Age with the gritty realism of police routine, Crofts bridged the gap between the romanticised detective stories of the nineteenth century and the realistic crime fiction of the modern era. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Crofts’ complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, concise introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

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Description

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Crofts’ life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All 29 Inspector French novels, with individual contents tables
* Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare story collections available in no other collection
* Even includes the scarce uncollected stories
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories
* Easily locate the tales you want to read
* Includes Crofts’ non-fiction – available in no other collection
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres

CONTENTS:

Inspector Joseph French Books
Inspector French’s Greatest Case (1924)
Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery (1926)
Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy (1927)
The Sea Mystery (1928)
The Box Office Murders (1929)
Sir John Magill’s Last Journey (1930)
Mystery in the Channel (1931)
Sudden Death (1932)
Death on the Way (1932)
The Hog’s Back Mystery (1933)
The 12:30 from Croydon (1934)
Mystery on Southampton Water (1934)
Crime at Guildford (1935)
The Loss of the Jane Vosper (1936)
Man Overboard! (1936)
Found Floating (1937)
The End of Andrew Harrison (1938)
Antidote to Venom (1938)
Fatal Venture (1939)
Golden Ashes (1940)
James Tarrant, Adventurer (1941)
The Losing Game (1941)
Fear Comes to Chalfont (1942)
The Affair at Little Wokeham (1943)
Enemy Unseen (1945)
Death of a Train (1946)
Silence for the Murderer (1949)
French Strikes Oil (1951)
Anything to Declare? (1957)

Other Novels
The Cask (1920)
The Ponson Case (1921)
The Pit-Prop Syndicate (1922)
The Groote Park Murder (1923)
Young Robin Brand, Detective (1947)

The Short Story Collections
Murderers Make Mistakes (1947)
Many a Slip (1955)
The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express and Other Stories (1956)
Uncollected Stories

The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

The Non-Fiction
A New Zealand Tragedy (1936)
The Gorse Hall Mystery (1938)
The Four Gospels in One Story (1949)

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