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Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy

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Collins Crime Club, 304 pages.
ISBN: 9780008190644


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A chance invitation from friends saves Ruth Averill’s life on the night her uncle’s old house in Starvel Hollow is consumed by fire, killing him and incinerating the fortune he kept in cash. Dismissed at the inquest as a tragic accident, the case is closed – until Scotland Yard is alerted to the circulation of bank-notes supposedly destroyed in the inferno.

Inspector Joseph French suspects that dark deeds were done in the Hollow that night and begins to uncover a brutal crime involving arson, murder and body snatching . . .

Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy was originally published in 1927.


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