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The Pit-Prop Syndicate

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The Pit-Prop Syndicate
AuthorFreeman Wills Crofts
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins
Publication date
1922
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Pit-Prop Syndicate is a 1922 thriller 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 Inspector French who debuted in Inspector French's Greatest Case (1924).[2]

Synopsis

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A boat notionally carrying pit props from the Gironde to the Humber is in fact engaging in illegal smuggling. This leads on to a murder in a London taxi and an investigation by the slow but sure Inspector Willis of Scotland Yard.

References

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  1. ^ Reilly p.396
  2. ^ Evans p.153

Bibliography

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  • 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.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
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