Man Overboard
Collins, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Orange cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine, in a pictorial dustwrapper. A very good copy, with trifling wear to the head of the spine and lacking the front endpaper, in a very good (price clipped) dustwrapper, the spine ends and front with needless internal reinforcement, and a little wear to the spine ends and corners.
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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