From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed âThe King of Detective Story Writersâ.
THREE CORPSES FOR INSPECTOR FRENCH
A chance invitation from friends saves Ruth Averillâs life on the night her uncleâs old house in Starvel Hollow is consumed by fire, killing him and incinerating the fortune he kept in cash. Dismissed at the inquest as a tragic accident, the case is closed â until Scotland Yard is alerted to the circulation of bank-notes supposedly destroyed in the inferno. Inspector Joseph French suspects that dark deeds were done in the Hollow that night and begins to uncover a brutal crime involving arson, murder and body snatching . . .