Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy

Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy is a crime

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

by Freeman Wills Crofts

Freeman Wills Crofts

Freeman Wills Crofts was an Irish mystery author, one of the 'Big Four' of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.-Birth and education:Crofts was born at 26 Waterloo Road, Dublin, Ireland...

, featuring Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard.

Plot outline

Three people are burnt to death in Yorkshire. But what initially appears to be an accident turns out to be the 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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