Anything to Declare?
Hodder & Stoughton, 1957.
First edition. 8vo. In publisher's original blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in a pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy with previous owner's inscription on the pastedown end paper, in a near fine (price clipped) dustwrapper with light wear to the head of the spine.
The last Inspector French novel, published a few weeks before Crofts's death. 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: 46038
£125.00
