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Inspector French’s Greatest Case is the first in Freeman Wills Crofts’s series featuring Scotland Yard detective Inspector Joseph French. In this novel, a robbery and murder in London has the inspector travelling to a number of European countries, following clues that lead to the criminal’s identity.
Freeman Wills Crofts (1879-1957) was an Irish engineer and writer. His training in railway engineering led to his including railway themes in many of his books. This novel, for example, has French studying railway and shipping schedules in his efforts to solve the mystery.
Though Crofts described this as Inspector French’s “greatest” case, the detective would go on to investigate many more great cases in another 28 novels and a number of short stories. Here at Faded Page, we currently have 7 of the Inspector French novels as well as several standalone mysteries by Crofts. If you would like to help us fill out our collection and bring more public domain titles like these to Canada, please consider volunteering at our companion site, Distributed Proofreaders Canada.