From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third standalone novel by
Freeman Wills Crofts, dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'.
Seymour Merriman's holiday in France comes to an abrupt halt when
his motorcycle starts leaking petrol. Following a lorry to find
fuel, he discovers that it belongs to an English company making
timber pit-props for coal mines back home. His suspicions of
illegal activity are aroused when he sees the exact same lorry with
a different number plate - and confirmed later with the shocking
discovery of a body. What began as amateur detective work ends up
as a job for Inspector Willis of Scotland Yard, a job requiring
tenacity, ingenuity and guile . . . Freeman Wills Crofts'
transition from civil engineer on the Irish railways to
world-renowned master of the detective mystery began with The Cask
when he was fully 40 years old; but it was his third novel, the
baffling The Pit-Prop Syndicate, that was singled out by his
editors in 1930 as the first for inclusion in Collins' prestigious
new series of reprints 'for crime connoisseurs'. This Detective
Club classic is introduced by John Curran, author of The Hooded
Gunman, and includes the bonus of an exclusive short story by
Crofts, 'Danger in Shroude Valley'.
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