 First edition | |
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | H. Dixon |
| Language | English |
| Series | Inspector French |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Publisher | Collins |
| Publication date | 1928 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy |
| Followed by | The Box Office Murders |
The Sea Mystery is a 1928 detective novel by Freeman Wills Crofts. It is the fourth in a series of novels featuring Inspector French of Scotland Yard. As with a number of his works Crofts creates a puzzling mystery which French is then able to solve using a Tide table and Bradshaw's Guide to the railways. The plot has some similarities with his debut novel The Cask (1920).
Synopsis
French of Scotland Yard is called in when a fisherman discovers a crate containing a battered body on the cost of South Wales. His investigations eventually take him to Devon.
References
- Reilly p.396
- Evans p.146
- Carter p.182
- Evans p.161
Bibliography
- Carter, Ian. Railways and Culture in Britain: The Epitome of Modernity. Manchester University Press, 2001.
- Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014.
- Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
External links
- The Sea Mystery at Project Gutenberg
The Sea Mystery public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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