From the Collins Crime Club archive, the sixth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.
A MURDER MYSTERY WITHOUT A CLUE
When Sir John Magill, the wealthy Irish industrialist, fails to show up at his home town on a well-publicised visit, neither his family nor the Belfast police can explain his disappearance. Foul play is suspected when his bloodstained hat is discovered, and Scotland Yard is called in. With his characteristic genius for reconstruction, Inspector French evolves a gruesome theory about what happened to the elderly man, but his reputation – and that of Scotland Yard – will depend on finding out who was responsible . . .
Bookish
2024-06-21
Sometimes it feels like Wills Croft's books are never ending. I've read quite a few of his books and some of them seem to go on forever without anything interesting happening. This story is all right but not exciting or particularly suspenseful. I've grown accustomed to Gordon as narrator of Freeman Wills Croft's books but Phil Cix does a phenomenal job and is what kept me listening all the way through. I'll be taking a break from this author after this latest read though.