Antidote to Venom
Hodder & Stoughton, 1938.
First edition. 8vo. Publisher's original blue cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine, in a pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy with fading to the spine which is slightly cocked, in a near fine dustwrapper with some fading to the spine, some light wear to spine ends and a closed tear to the back flap.
An Inspector French novel. 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.
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