![]() First edition (3rd impression 1925) | |
Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
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Language | English |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Collins |
Publication date | 1923 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type |
The Groote Park Murder is a 1923 detective novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, one of the leading figures of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. [1]
It was one of several stand-alone novels Crofts wrote following his successful debut The Cask, before creating the character of Chief Inspector French who debuted the following year in Inspector French's Greatest Case. [2]
When a dead body is found in a railway tunnel in South Africa, the local police investigation at first points towards an accidental death. However, a second almost identical killing in the Scottish Highlands appears to point towards murder.
![]() First edition (3rd impression 1925) | |
Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
---|---|
Language | English |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Collins |
Publication date | 1923 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type |
The Groote Park Murder is a 1923 detective novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, one of the leading figures of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. [1]
It was one of several stand-alone novels Crofts wrote following his successful debut The Cask, before creating the character of Chief Inspector French who debuted the following year in Inspector French's Greatest Case. [2]
When a dead body is found in a railway tunnel in South Africa, the local police investigation at first points towards an accidental death. However, a second almost identical killing in the Scottish Highlands appears to point towards murder.