Inspector French: Man Overboard! (Inspector French, Book 12)

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To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, The King of Detective Story Writers, this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.
A new chemical process that will make millions: thats the glittering promise held out to Jack Penrose and his fiance, Pam Grey, when theyre invited to join a team of inventors in Belfast. But Pam is wary. She doesnt trust the inventors or Mr Reginald Platt, who comes to assess the viability of the new process or to steal it When Platts body is washed up on the Irish coast, it looks like an accident, maybe suicide, but Inspector French suspects murder and must find the vital clues to lead him to the truth.

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Once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers', Freeman Wills Crofts was an Irish railway engineer whose brilliant first mystery novel, The Cask, was motivated by an extended illness in 1919. Outselling Agatha Christie, and renowned for his ingenious plotting and meticulous attention to detail, Crofts followed up with The Ponson Case (1921) and no less than thirty books featuring the iconic Scotland Yard detective, Inspector French.