The Cheyne mystery

By Freeman Wills Crofts

Subjects: Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, England, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Police in fiction, Joseph French (Fictitious character), Fiction, Great britain, fiction

Description: > In a country hotel Maxwell Cheyne sits down to lunch with the pleasant stranger he has just met. Then, as the meal ends, he sinks into a drugged sleep and, on waking, learns that his house has been burgled (though nothing is missing).... This is only the first of his encounters with a gang of very persistent criminals. But what are they after? It falls to Inspector French of Scotland Yard to expose their desperate and unguessable conspiracy.