Inspector_French_and_the_Starvel_Tragedy

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Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy

1927 novel

Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy is a crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, featuring Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard.

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Plot outline

Three people are burnt to death in Yorkshire. But what initially appears to be an accident turns out to be a case of multiple murder, arson, and body snatching.

Publication history

  • 2001 – UK: House of Stratus
  • 1987 – UK, London: Hogarth Press
  • 1945 – UK: Penguin Books, 1st pb edition (#514)
  • 1927 – US, New York: Harper, 1st US edition as The Starvel Hollow Tragedy
  • 1927 – UK, London: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.,


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