Many a Slip
Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.
First edition. In publisher's original red cloth with black lettering on the spine, in a pictorial dustwrapper. A very good copy, in a very good (price-clipped) dustwrapper indeed with some light wear to the head of the spine, a split to front fold internally repaired.
A collection of Inspector French short stories. Freeman Wills Crofts, an Irish civil engineer and later full-time author, begun writing during the Golden Age of crime fiction. He was a prolific author, writing both short stories and novels, later halted by his declining health. He had over thirty books published in his lifetime.
There are glimpses of mathematics and railway operation throughout his novels, alibi's featuring transport timetables and mysteries set on trains.
Stock ID: 46039
£95.00
