The Pit-Prop Syndicate

1922 novel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Pit-Prop Syndicate is a 1922 thriller novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, one of the leading figures of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.[1] It was one of several stand-alone novels Crofts wrote following his successful debut The Cask, before creating the character of Inspector French who debuted in Inspector French's Greatest Case (1924).[2]

LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins
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The Pit-Prop Syndicate
AuthorFreeman Wills Crofts
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins
Publication date
1922
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
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A boat notionally carrying pit props from the Gironde to the Humber is in fact engaging in illegal smuggling. This leads on to a murder in a London taxi and an investigation by the slow but sure Inspector Willis of Scotland Yard.

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