The Ponson Case

By Freeman Wills Crofts

Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, crime

Description: > The forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’. >When the body of Sir William Ponson is found in the Cranshaw River near his home of Luce Manor, it is assumed to be an accident – until the evidence points to murder. Inspector Tanner of Scotland Yard discovers that those who would benefit most from Sir William’s death seem to have unbreakable alibis, and a mysterious fifth man whose footprints were found at the crime scene is nowhere to be found . . .