Death of a Train
Hodder & Stoughton, 1946.
First edition. 8vo. Publisher's original maroon cloth with white lettering on the front board and spine, in a pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy with a few spots to page edges, in a good dustwrapper with fraying to the spine ends, front right corner and the top of the back panel with minor loss.
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: 46047
£45.00
