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    Inspector French: Sir John Magill’s Last Journey
    Inspector French: Sir John Magill’s Last Journey
    Inspector French: Sir John Magill’s Last Journey
    Audiobook9 hours

    Inspector French: Sir John Magill’s Last Journey

    Written by Freeman Wills Crofts

    Narrated by Phil Fox

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    About this audiobook

    From the Collins Crime Club archive, the sixth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.

    A MURDER MYSTERY WITHOUT A CLUE

    When Sir John Magill, the wealthy Irish industrialist, fails to show up at his home town on a well-publicised visit, neither his family nor the Belfast police can explain his disappearance. Foul play is suspected when his bloodstained hat is discovered, and Scotland Yard is called in. With his characteristic genius for reconstruction, Inspector French evolves a gruesome theory about what happened to the elderly man, but his reputation – and that of Scotland Yard – will depend on finding out who was responsible . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 9, 2017
    ISBN9780008190750
    Inspector French: Sir John Magill’s Last Journey
    Author

    Freeman Wills Crofts

    Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957) was an Irish author of detective fiction. Born in Dublin, he spent decades as a railroad engineer in Northern Ireland. When a long illness kept him away from work, he wrote The Cask (1920), a mystery novel that launched him to immediate popularity. He continued writing after he returned to work, finally leaving the railroad in 1929 to write full time. His best-known novels include The Starvel Hollow Tragedy (1927) and The 12:30 from Croydon (1934).

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    • 5/5
      Brilliantly written vintage crime. Talented narrator who can do a wide range of convincing Belfast and County Antrim accents. Set in County Antrim and Scottish coastal towns. Really enjoyed this