The Box Office Murders
Collins, 1929.
First edition. 8vo. In publisher's original black cloth with red lettering on the front board and spine, in remnants of the pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy with slight foxing to the page edges, in a poor dustwrapper with significant chips to the spine ends, internally reinforced and lesser loss to the rear panel 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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