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Inspector French: James Tarrant, Adventurer

Freeman Wills Crofts author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:27th Oct '22

Should be back in stock very soon

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A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.

James Tarrant wants to make a lot of money. But as an assistant chemist in a sleepy village backwater his career seems to have reached a dead end and he has no way to further his ambitions. Suddenly inspiration strikes, and his goal looks to be within reach, with a willing young accomplice who will do almost anything for him. But would she go as far as murder? Inspector French is called in to investigate shady business deals, two-timers, and multiple motives for revenge. . .

“Crofts is an Old Master whose work still overshadows the products of most of the Bright Young Things.” Times Literary Supplement

“A detective novel by Mr. Wills Crofts is always an event to those who know … Mr. Crofts is among the few muscular writers of detective fiction. He has never let me down.”
HAROLD NICHOLSON, DAILY EXPRESS

ISBN: 9780008554156

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm

Weight: 230g

352 pages