The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express
And Other Stories
Hodder & Stoghton, 1956.
First edition. 8vo. In publisher's original green cloth with navy lettering on the spine, in a pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, bright and crisp with a little dustiness to the rear panel.
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: 46030
£95.00
