Many A Slip
Product Description This collection of short stories features the unrivalled Inspector French once again showing his determination to solve difficult crimes. In each case the murderer makes a slip which gives the game away to the investigator. Can the reader spot this before Inspector French explains it? About the Author Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin in 1879 and died in 1957. He worked for a Northern Irish railway company as an engineer until 1929, before turning to detective fiction His plots reveal his mathematical training and he specialised in the seemingly unbreakable alibi, laying layer upon layer within his stories. He loved ships and trains and the intricacies of transport timetables feature in many of his stories. Crofts best-known character is Inspector Joseph French. French appears for the first time in Inspector Frenchs Greatest Case. He is a detective who achieves his results through dogged persistence.