The Pit-Prop Syndicate
The Pit-Prop Syndicate From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third standalone novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'.Seymour Merriman's holiday in France comes…
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The Pit-Prop Syndicate
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third standalone novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'.Seymour Merriman's holiday in France comes to an abrupt halt when his motorcycle starts leaking petrol. His suspicions of illegal activity are aroused when he sees the exact same lorry with a different number plate - and confirmed later with the shocking discovery of a body. Following a lorry to find fuel, he discovers that it belongs to an English company making timber pit-props for coal mines back home.
.Freeman Wills Crofts' transition from civil engineer on the Irish railways to world-renowned master of the detective mystery began with The Cask when he was fully 40 years old; but it What began as amateur detective work ends up as a job for Inspector Willis of Scotland Yard, a job requiring tenacity, ingenuity and guile . .