Paperback, 282 pages
English language
Published July 1, 2001 by House of Stratus.
> THE FIRST INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERY
>At the offices of the Hatton Garden diamond merchant Duke & Peabody, the body of old Mr Gething is discovered beside a now-empty safe. With multiple suspects, the robbery and murder are clearly the work of a master criminal and require a master detective to solve them. Meticulous as ever, Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard embarks on an investigation that takes him from the streets of London to Holland, France, and Spain, and finally to a ship bound for South America...
This book was a pleasant surprise. I enjoyed it quite a bit, although the very end was verbose in providing excessive clarifications/ explanations. I will hunt about to see if I am able to find additional novels by Freeman Wills Crofts.
