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The Hog's Back Mystery (British Library Crime Classics)

✍ Scribed by Freeman Wills Crofts, Martin Edwards

Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Weight: 212 KB
Series: Inspector French Ⅹ
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0712357971
ASIN: B00UINPD1U

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✦ Synopsis

Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage, Inspector French is called in to investigate. At first he suspects a simple domestic intrigue - and begins to uncover a web of romantic entanglements beneath the couple's peaceful rural life. The case soon takes a more complex turn. Other people vanish mysteriously, one of Dr Earle's house guests among them. What is the explanation for the disappearances? If the missing people have been murdered, what can be the motive? This fiendishly complicated puzzle is one that only Inspector French can solve. Freeman Wills Crofts was a master of the intricately and ingeniously plotted detective novel, and The Hog's Back Mystery shows him at the height of his powers. This new edition of a classic is introduced by Martin Edwards.
This version has some typos (Apparently the one who edited this confused the "z" with the "s"), I have attempted to fix most of them.

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