Box Office Murders

Rating:
Summary: Recommended for readability and ingenuity.
Review: "... he had found that nothing so cleared up his views of a case as the fixing of the duration to each incident." - The Box Office Murders, Chapter 4.

Fixing duration, checking an alibi against maps and clocks, the times of tides, train timetables - all these procedures are meat and drink to Freeman Wills Crofts' police officer, Inspector French of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department.

The serial killing of several young women is the case he is working on in this 1929 book. All the women are ticket sellers in cinemas. When one of them consults French to enlist his aid and is subsequently found dead, floating in the English Channel, by a fisherman, French accelerates his investigation.

Bringing all the above checking procedures into play, he is able to pinpoint the spot along the coast where the body was dumped from a stolen boat. And so the case continues, every element of the unsolved mystery logically considered and explored to the end.

Less ambitious and a little shorter than most of Crofts' other detection novels, this one is nevertheless recommended for its ingenuity and readability to all those who like to collect samples from "The Golden Age of Detective Fiction".

Rating:
Summary: Recommended for readability and ingenuity.
Review: "... he had found that nothing so cleared up his views of a case as the fixing of the duration to each incident." - The Box Office Murders, Chapter 4.

Fixing duration, checking an alibi against maps and clocks, the times of tides, train timetables - all these procedures are meat and drink to Freeman Wills Crofts' police officer, Inspector French of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department.

The serial killing of several young women is the case he is working on in this 1929 book. All the women are ticket sellers in cinemas. When one of them consults French to enlist his aid and is subsequently found dead, floating in the English Channel, by a fisherman, French accelerates his investigation.

Bringing all the above checking procedures into play, he is able to pinpoint the spot along the coast where the body was dumped from a stolen boat. And so the case continues, every element of the unsolved mystery logically considered and explored to the end.

Less ambitious and a little shorter than most of Crofts' other detection novels, this one is nevertheless recommended for its ingenuity and readability to all those who like to collect samples from "The Golden Age of Detective Fiction".

Rating:
Summary: Recommended For Ingenuity and Readability.
Review: "... he had found that nothing so cleared up his views of a case as the fixing of the duration to each incident." - The Box Office Murders, Chapter 4.

Fixing duration, checking an alibi against maps and clocks, the times of tides, train timetables - all these procedures are meat and drink to Freeman Wills Crofts' police officer, Inspector French of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department.

The serial killing of several young women is the case he is working on in this 1929 book. All the women are ticket sellers in cinemas. When one of them consults French to enlist his aid and is subsequently found dead, floating in the English Channel, by a fisherman, French accelerates his investigation.

Bringing all the above checking procedures into play, he is able to pinpoint the spot along the coast where the body was dumped from a stolen boat. And so the case continues, every element of the unsolved mystery logically considered and explored to the end.

Less ambitious and a little shorter than most of Crofts' other detection novels, this one is nevertheless recommended for its ingenuity and readability to all those who like to collect samples from "The Golden Age of Detective Fiction".