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The Sea Mystery

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The Sea Mystery
First edition
AuthorFreeman Wills Crofts
Cover artistH. Dixon
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector French
GenreMystery
PublisherCollins
Publication date
1928
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byInspector French and the Starvel Tragedy 
Followed byThe Box Office Murders 

The Sea Mystery is a 1928 detective novel by Freeman Wills Crofts.[1] It is the fourth in a series of novels featuring Inspector French of Scotland Yard.[2] 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.[3] The plot has some similarities with his debut novel The Cask (1920).[4]

Synopsis

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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

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  1. ^ Reilly p.396
  2. ^ Evans p.146
  3. ^ Carter p.182
  4. ^ Evans p.161

Bibliography

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  • 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.
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