Freeman Wills Crofts | Inspector French's Greatest Case, 1924

Freeman Wills Crofts

Inspector French's Greatest Case. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1924

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST INSPECTOR FRENCH NOVEL, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered in red, DUST-JACKET, some browning and spotting, soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities with some minor loss to spine and minor abrasions

Melvyn Barnes writes in Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (London, 1980) that "Inspector French's Greatest Case was the first in a long line of investigations by French... The stories were the product of a brilliantly logical mind, a mind with a background of engineering and mathematics..."

LITERATURE

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PROVENANCE

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