The Hog's Back mystery

By Freeman Wills Crofts

Subjects: Police, Golden Age mystery, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Missing persons, fiction, England, fiction, Police in fiction, Missing persons, Murder, Joseph French (Fictitious character), Fiction

Description: Several local residents have disappeared in suspicious circumstances at the Hog's Back ridge in Surrey. When a doctor vanishes, followed by a nurse with whom he was acquainted, Inspector French deduces murder, but there are no bodies. Can he eventually prove his theory and show that murder has been committed?