Silence for the Murderer
Hodder & Stoughton, 1949.
First UK edition. 8vo. Publisher's original green cloth with navy lettering on the front board and spine, in a pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy with some spotting to the top edge and a cocked spine, in a very good dustwrapper indeed with a little wear to the head of the spine 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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