Freeman Wills Crofts

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...

We begin with a body. Andrew Crowther, a wealthy retired manufacturer, is found dead in his seat on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris. Rather less orthodox is the ensuing flashback in which we live with the killer at every stage, from the first...

Step into the golden age of detective fiction with The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts, first published in 1920 and celebrated as one of the earliest great procedural crime novels.When a damaged wine cask arrives at the London docks, workers expect...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In "The Cask," a seemingly ordinary incident - a broken cask at a London dock - unveils a puzzling mystery for Scotland Yard's Inspector Burnley. The cask, suspected to contain a body and gold, vanishes...

After lunch at a hotel in Plymouth, Maxwell Cheyne, a young and well-off country gentleman, is approached by a gentleman with a proposition. The meeting, however, is cut short after Cheyne passes out. On waking, he finds not only his pockets rifled...

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...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In "The Pit-Prop Syndicate," a seemingly ordinary shipment of wood, used to support mine tunnels, hides a sinister secret. Inspector Willis of Scotland Yard investigates a suspicious boat carrying "pit...

When Sir William Ponson doesn’t call down to his butler for his customary evening drink, the unusual turn is initially brushed away, but the alarm is raised once his servants find that he has disappeared from the house. It’s only the following morning...