Freeman Crofts – Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy (страница 1)
FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS
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First published in Great Britain by Wm Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1927
Copyright © Estate of Freeman Wills Crofts 1927
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Source ISBN: 9780008190644
Ebook Edition © January 2017 ISBN: 9780008190651
Version 2016-12-08
TO
MY WIFE
WHO SUGGESTED THE IDEA FROM WHICH
THIS STORY GREW
Table of Contents
Chapter 3: Mr Tarkington Develops a Theory
Chapter 4: Inspector French Goes North
Chapter 5: French Picks Up a Clue
Chapter 6: Talloires, Lac D’Annecy
Chapter 7: Posthumous Evidence
Chapter 9: The Value of Analysis
Chapter 10: Whymper Speaks at Last
Chapter 11: A Startling Theory
Chapter 12: A Somewhat Gruesome Chapter
Chapter 13: The Piece of Yellow Clay
Chapter 14: The Secret of the Moor
Chapter 15: French Baits his Trap
Chapter 17: Concerning Wedding Rings
Chapter 18: Cumulative Evidence