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Mystery in the Channel
- Author
- Freeman Wills Crofts
- Narrator
- Gordon Griffin
- Publisher
- Soundings
- Publish Date
- 1 March 2017
- Run Time
- 8 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 4.5 (2 reviews)
What to expect
User Reviews
Book 4.5
Narration 4.5
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Crofts is an excellent but less well known author of the Golden Age of detective fiction. He was highly thought of by his peers. Both Christie and Sayers were fans. Sayers referred to him as the "master of the timetable". His books are more akin to police procedurals with a lesser emphasis on the whodunit aspect of his peers. The narrator does an excellent job. While he doesn't have the flair of Sayers' writing or the genius grace of Christie's puzzles, he's well worth adding to your reading list to get a fuller education of his worthy addition to their ranks.
Thomas Reilly 2026-09-20
Details
- Author
- Freeman Wills Crofts
- Narrator
- Gordon Griffin
- Duration
- 8 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 March 2017
- ISBN
- 9781407964959
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Soundings
- Genre
- Classic crime and mystery fiction
- Rating
- 4.5(2 reviews)
- Narration
- 4.5(2 reviews)
Synopsis
The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the water, and on closer inspection, sees a body lying on the deck. When members of his crew go aboard the yacht, they find not one male corpse but two. The dead men were chairman and vice-chairman of Moxon General Securities, one of the largest financial houses in the country. Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard is called in. French soon discovers that Moxon's is on the brink of collapse. Moxon and Deeping seem to have been fleeing the country with their ill-gotten gains, but who killed them, and how?
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