The cover page is adapted from View in Gidley Park, Devon, a painting completed in 1868 by William Widgery. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Ponson Case
Chapters (16)
- I: Mystery at Luce Manor 0:00
- II: A Sinister Suggestion 31:38
- III: Hoaxed? 1:02:24
- IV: Inspector Tanner Grows Suspicious 1:33:51
- V: Inspector Tanner Becomes Convinced 2:11:28
- VI: What Cosgrove Had to Tell 2:43:58
- VII: Cosgrove’s Trip North 3:10:39
- VIII: Tanner Finds Himself Duped 3:49:41
- IX: Lois Drew Takes a Hand 4:20:04
- X: A Woman’s Wit 4:52:32
- XI: A Fresh Start 5:24:19
- XII: A Stern Chase 5:51:39
- XIII: Blackmail? 6:40:16
- XIV: A Dramatic Discovery 7:23:25
- XV: In the Luce Manor Boathouse 8:04:04
- XVI: Conclusion 8:50:20
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When Sir William Ponson doesn’t call down to his butler for his customary evening drink, the unusual turn is initially brushed away, but the alarm is raised once his servants find that he has disappeared from the house. It’s only the following morning that, at the bottom of a set of rapids, a damaged boat—and his body—are discovered. Initially the death is assumed to be a horrible accident, but it’s not long before enough suspicious evidence is found to merit a visit from Inspector Tanner of Scotland Yard.
The Ponson Case is Freeman Wills Crofts’s second novel (following the well received The Cask) and amply demonstrates his skill in tightly plotted crime stories, in particular with his encyclopedic knowledge of train stations and timetables gained during his day job as a railway engineer.