On a raw November night in Hatton Garden, an old clerk of the diamond firm of Duke and Peabody is found murdered beside the empty safe. Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard takes up a cold, complicated trail that leads him to Barcelona hotels, a wedding, an American widow from Pittsburgh and a matter of some pairs of blankets.
The 1924 debut of Crofts’s patient, methodical Inspector French, a cornerstone of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Download the free EPUB.