The Cask

About This Book

Paris and the shipping business feature in this puzzle plot. The Cask is widely regarded as one of Crofts's best alibi plots and investigative procedures. Fans will enjoy the authentic police techniques.


About The Author

Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin in 1879 and died in 1957. He worked for a Northern Irish railway company as an engineer until 1929, before turning to detective fiction His plots reveal his mathematical training and he specialized in the seemingly unbreakable alibi, laying layer upon layer within his stories. He loved ships and trains and the intricacies of transport timetables feature in many of his stories. Crofts's best-known character is Inspector Joseph French. French appears for the first time in Inspector French's Greatest Case. He is a detective who achieves his results through dogged persistence.




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