The Sea Mystery is a 1928 detective novel by Freeman Wills Crofts.Reilly p.396 It is the fourth in a series of novels featuring Inspector French of Scotland Yard.Evans p.146 As with a number of his works Crofts creates a puzzling mystery which French is then able to solve using a Tide table and Bradshaw's Guide to the railways.Carter p.182 The plot has some similarities with his debut novel The Cask (1920).Evans p.161
Synopsis French of Scotland Yard is called in when a fisherman discovers a crate containing a battered body on the cost of South Wales. His investigations eventually take him to Devon.
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Bibliography Carter, Ian. Railways and Culture in Britain: The Epitome of Modernity. Manchester University Press, 2001. Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014. Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003. Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
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