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The Groote Park Murder (Detective Club Crime Classics)

English

By (author): Freeman Wills Crofts

From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.

When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a straightforward case of a man struck by a passing train. But Inspector Vandam of the Middeldorp police isnt satisfied that Albert Smiths death was accidental, and he sets out to prove foul play in a baffling mystery which crosses continents from deepest South Africa to the wilds of northern Scotland, where an almost identical crime appears to have been perpetrated.

The Groote Park Murder was the last of Freeman Wills Crofts standalone crime novels, foreshadowing his iconic Inspector French series and helping to cement his reputation (according to his publishers) as the greatest and most popular detective writer in the world. Like The Cask, The Ponson Case and The Pit-Prop Syndicate before it, here were a delightfully ingenious plot, impeccable handling of detail, and an overwhelming surprise curtain from a masterful crime writer on the cusp of global success.

This Detective Club classic is introduced with an essay by Freeman Wills Crofts, unseen since 1937, about The Writing of a Detective Novel.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 200g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Mar 2020
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008333959

About Freeman Wills Crofts

Once dubbed The King of Detective Story Writers Freeman Wills Crofts was an Irish railway engineer whose brilliant first mystery novel The Cask was motivated by an extended illness in 1919. Outselling Agatha Christie and renowned for his ingenious plotting and meticulous attention to detail Crofts followed up with The Ponson Case (1921) and no less than thirty books featuring the iconic Scotland Yard detective Inspector French.

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