Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Cask The Cask Freeman Wills Crofts A strange container is found on the London docks, and its contents point to murder The cask from Paris is bigger than the rest, its sides reinforced to hold the extraordinary weight within. As the… OL16871587W
Murder Most Foul Murder Most Foul Freeman Wills Crofts,Thomas Burke,Arthur Conan Doyle,Robert Bloch,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,Dorothy L. Sayers,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Ray Bradbury,Margery Allingham,Alfred McLelland Burrage,Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards,Georges Simenon,Simon Brett,Agatha Christie,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,Arnold Bennett,William Somerset Maugham,P. D. James,John Collier,Isaac Asimov,Mann Rubin,Algernon Blackwood,Eddy C. Bertin,Jack London,Winston Graham,Maurice Level,Edmund Crispin,Jókai, Mór The fruit at the bottom of the bowl / Ray Bradbury Murder! / Arnold Bennett The kennel / Maurice Level We knows you're busy writing / Edmund Crispin A thousand deaths / Jack London Back for Chri… OL17850834W
The Hog's Back mystery The Hog's Back mystery Freeman Wills Crofts 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 deduc… OL20004090W
Mystery In The Channel Mystery In The Channel Freeman Wills Crofts > The cross-channel steamer *Chichester* suddenly stopped half way to France. Right in her course lay a yacht, motionless and apparently crewless. A boat was lowered and drew along side the derelict,… OL24341221W
The Ponson Case The Ponson Case Freeman Wills Crofts > 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 M… OL5204309W
Antidote to venom Antidote to venom Freeman Wills Crofts George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsing; his finances are insecure; and an outbreak of disease threatens the animals in his care. As Su… OL5204320W
The Box Office Murders The Box Office Murders Freeman Wills Crofts >A girl employed in the box office of a London cinema falls into the power of a mysterious trio of crooks. A solicitor, learning of her predicament, sends her to the Yard. There she tells French the … OL5204321W
The Cheyne mystery The Cheyne mystery Freeman Wills Crofts > 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… OL5204324W
The sea mystery The sea mystery Freeman Wills Crofts Off the coast of Burry Port in south Wales, two fishermen discover a shipping crate and manage to haul it ashore. Inside is the decomposing body of a brutally murdered man. With nothing to indicate w… OL5204325W
Inspector French's Greatest Case Inspector French's Greatest Case Freeman Wills Crofts > THE FIRST INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERY >At the offices of the Hatton Garden diamond merchant Duke & Peabody, the body of old Mr Gething is discovered beside a now-empty safe. With multiple suspects,… OL5204326W
Country House Murders Country House Murders Freeman Wills Crofts,C. Day Lewis,Philip MacDonald,P. G. Wodehouse,Arthur Conan Doyle,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,James G. Miles,Thomas Godfrey,Dorothy L. Sayers,Robert Barr,Wilkie Collins,Ruth Rendell,Ethel Lina White,Margery Allingham,Ngaio Marsh,Agatha Christie,P. D. James,John Dickson Carr,Thomas Godfrey,Michael Innes,Thomas Godfrey,R. Austin Freeman,Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy,Cyril Hare,Christianna Brand Contains: [Adventure of the Abbey Grange](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17084226W/Adventure_of_the_Abbey_Grange) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A marriage tragedy / Wilkie Collins Lord Chizelrigg's … OL6985458W