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Hodder & Stoughton, 1937.
First edition. Publisher's original blue cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine, in a pictorial dustwrapper. A very good copy, which is slightly cocked with some spotting to the page edges and previous owner's inscription on the front pastedown, in a very good dustwrapper, with a little wear to the spine ends and a closed tear to the front flap.
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.
Stock ID: 46041
