From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ´The King of Detective Story Writers´.THREE CORPSES FOR INSPECTOR FRENCHA chance invitation from friends saves Ruth Averill´s life on the night her uncle´s old house in Starvel Hollow is consumed by fire, killing him and incinerating the fortune he kept in cash. Dismissed at the inquest as a tragic accident, the case is closed - until Scotland Yard is alerted to the circulation of bank-notes supposedly destroyed in the inferno. Inspector Joseph French suspects that dark deeds were done in the Hollow that night and begins to uncover a brutal crime involving arson, murder and body snatching . . .
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'.
