The Box Office Murders
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Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Inspector French |
Genre | Mystery |
Publisher | Collins |
Publication date | 1929 |
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Preceded by | The Sea Mystery |
Followed by | Sir John Magill's Last Journey |
The Box Office Murders is a 1929 detective novel by the Irish-born writer Freeman Wills Crofts. It is the fifth in his series of novels featuring Inspector French, a prominent figure of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.[1] It was published in the United States the same year by Harper under the alternative title The Purple Sickle Murders.[2]
Synopsis[]
French becomes involved in a case that sees several female cinema box office cashiers die in mysterious circumstances.
References[]
Bibliography[]
- 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.
Categories:
- 1929 British novels
- Novels by Freeman Wills Crofts
- British crime novels
- British mystery novels
- British thriller novels
- British detective novels
- Irish mystery novels
- Irish crime novels
- William Collins, Sons books
- Novels set in London
- 1920s novel stubs