The Pit-Prop Syndicate

The Pit-Prop Syndicate

Author	Freeman Wills Crofts
Language	English
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	Collins
Publication date	1922
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

The Pit-Prop Syndicate is a 1922 thriller novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, one of the leading figures of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.[1] It was one of several stand-alone novels Crofts wrote following his successful debut The Cask, before creating the character of Inspector French who debuted in Inspector French's Greatest Case (1924).[2]

Synopsis

A boat notionally carrying pit props from the Gironde to the Humber is in fact engaging in illegal smuggling. This leads on to a murder in a London taxi and an investigation by the slow but sure Inspector Willis of Scotland Yard.

References

1. Reilly p.396
2. Evans p.153

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.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

External links

• The Pit-Prop Syndicate at Project Gutenberg
• https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/freeman-wills-crofts/the-pit-prop-syndicate