Harpercollins The End of Andrew Harrison Wills Crofts Freeman

В офисе торговцев бриллиантами Дюка и Пибоди рядом с ныне пустым сейфом обнаружено тело старого мистера Гетинга. Совершено ограбление и убийство, имеется несколько подозреваемых. Всё указывает на то, что это дело рук опытного преступника, и раскрыть его может лишь не менее опытный детектив. Дотошный инспектор Скотленд-Ярда Джозеф Френч приступает к расследованию, в котором он покинет улицы Лондона и отправится в Голландию, Францию и Испанию и, наконец, попадет на корабль, направляющийся в Южную Америку • “Inspector French`s Greatest Case” – это книга из цикла детективов Фримена Уиллса Крофтса про инспектора Френча. Станет прекрасным подарком для любителей детективов • Книга на английском языке • At the offices of the Hatton Garden diamond merchant Duke and Peabody, the body of old Mr Gething is discovered beside a now-empty safe

В ознаменование столетия публикации Фримена Уиллса Крофтса, "Короля авторов детективных историй", в 2020 году выходит один из шести классических криминальных романов с участием инспектора Френча "Инспектор Френч и тайна на Саутгемптон-Уотер" • Компания по производству быстротвердеющего цемента Joymount на Соленте испытывает серьезные финансовые трудности. Его конкурент, компания Chayle на острове Уайт, разработала новый секретный производственный процесс и продает их дешевле. Не сумев законным образом раскрыть секрет, двое сотрудников вынашивают план взлома и кражи. Но схема идет не по плану, что приводит к повреждениям и смертям, и инспектору Френчу приходится расследовать одно из самых драматичных и запутанных дел за всю его карьеру • Книга на английском языке

Spain, over a span of forty turbulent years, is the theatre for a drama of love, friendship, ideals, ambition and revenge in this powerful and passionate novel about the Spanish Civil War • On the bitter battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, an unlikely friendship is forged. Tom, an idealistic American, and Adam, a wayward young Englishman, fight on opposing sides, yet they have one thing in common - a passionate love for Spain… • With a fervour to match their own, a woman of Madrid is battling in the same bloody struggle. She is Ana, the Black Widow; young, beautiful, bereaved - and a dangerous freedom fighter • But the end of the armed conflict will not end the conflicting emotions that draw these people together. For over forty turbulent years, from the dark days of Franco's victory to the birth of modern Spain, they will be bound together in an intricate web - of love, betrayal, ambition and revenge… • Derek Lambert, who knew and loved Spain for many years, uses his unique understanding of Spanish history and character in this sweeping novel which encompasses some of the most crucial events of twentieth-century Europe, creates characters of extraordinary depth and humanity, and tells a story of compelling power and vitality

A Race Against Time • The year is 2025. Mankind is under threat • A Fight For Their Lives • Men are dying, but women remain safe. As the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe, people fight to protect the men they love against all odds • A Disaster Like No Other • Can they find a cure before it's too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world - or its salvation? • Compelling and devastating, The End of Men is the pulse-pounding thriller everyone is talking about

A race against time • The year is 2025. Mankind is under threat • A fight for their lives • Men are dying, but women remain safe. As the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe, people fight to protect the men they love against all odds • A disaster like no other • Can they find a cure before it's too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world - or its salvation? • Compelling and devastating, The End of Men is the pulse-pounding thriller everyone is talking about

The suicide of a sales clerk at the box office of a London cinema leaves another girl in fear for her life. Persuaded to seek help from Scotland Yard, Miss Darke confides in Inspector Joseph French about a gambling scam by a mysterious trio of crooks and that she believes her friend was murdered. When the girl fails to turn up the next day, and the police later find her body, French's inquiries reveal that similar girls have also been murdered, all linked by their jobs and by a sinister stranger with a purple scar…

A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television • James Tarrant wants to make a lot of money. But as an assistant chemist in a sleepy village backwater his career seems to have reached a dead end and he has no way to further his ambitions. Suddenly inspiration strikes, and his goal looks to be within reach, with a willing young accomplice who will do almost anything for him. But would she go as far as murder? Inspector French is called in to investigate shady business deals, two-timers, and multiple motives for revenge

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television • The Jane Vosper is plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic by a series of explosions in her hold. With no innocent explanation of the cause, it appears that someone must have sunk the ship for the insurance money. When The Land and Sea Insurance Company’s official investigator then disappears, Inspector French is called in from Scotland Yard to find him. French decides that the only way to find his missing person is to solve the baffling mystery of the sinking of the Jane Vosper first…

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television • Work on the widening of the Southern Railway’s route along the Dorset coast is halted when a man is hit in the path of a train. At the inquest, the tragedy becomes a dark and sinister mystery when a witness swears to seeing a man running away from the scene of the accident – a statement that results in the intervention of Inspector French. But when the apparent solution to the case turns into an even deeper mystery, French faces the most complex problem he has ever encountered

This special expanded edition of Freeman Wills Crofts’ classic crime novel includes a unique commentary by Superintendent Walter Hambrook of Scotland Yard, never before published in book form • The Carrington family, victims of a strange poisoning, take an Olympic cruise from Glasgow to help them recover. At Creuta one member goes ashore and does not return. Their body is next day found floating in the Straits of Gibraltar. Joining the ship at Marseilles, can Inspector French solve the mystery before they reach Athens? • Introduced by Tony Medawar, editor of Bodies from the Library, this classic Inspector French novel includes unique interludes by Superintendent Walter Hambrook of Scotland Yard, who provides a real-life detective commentary on the case as the mystery unfolds

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television • A new chemical process that will make millions: that’s the glittering promise held out to Jack Penrose and his fiancee, Pam Grey, when they’re invited to join a team of inventors in Belfast. But Pam is wary. She doesn’t trust the inventors or Mr Reginald Platt, who comes to assess the viability of the new process – or to steal it? When Platt’s body is washed up on the Irish coast, it looks like an accident, maybe suicide, but Inspector French suspects murder and must find the vital clues to lead him to the truth

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers' • When the body of Sir William Ponson is found in the Cranshaw River near his home of Luce Manor, it is assumed to be an accident - until the evidence points to murder. Inspector Tanner of Scotland Yard discovers that those who would benefit most from Sir William's death seem to have unbreakable alibis, and a mysterious fifth man whose footprints were found at the crime scene is nowhere to be found… • This Detective Story Club classic is introduced by Dolores Gordon-Smith, author of the Jack Haldean Golden Age mysteries