Freeman Wills Crofts

Broschiertes Buch

The Cask

100th Anniversary Edition

Beschreibung

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the seminal first novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed â The King of Detective Story Writersâ and recognised as one of the â big fourâ Golden Age crime authors.

Autor

Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin in 1879, the son of a doctor in the British army, who died before he was born. He was raised in Northern Ireland and became a civil engineer. His first book, The Cask, was published in the summer of 1920, immediately establishing him as a new master of detective fiction. Scrupulously planting clues for the reader to find, he was continually praised for his flawless plotting. Crofts was a founder member of the Detection Club and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1939. He created the popular detective, Inspector French, and died in 1957 with more than 30 ingenious books to his name.

Produktdetails

• Detective Club Crime Classics
• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 192mm x 126mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780008333942
• ISBN-10: 0008333947
• Artikelnr.: 58568022