The cover page is adapted from The Box Office Murders, a painting completed in 1929 by An Unknown Artist. 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 Box Office Murders
章节(19)
- I: The Purple Sickle 0:00
- II: French Makes an Assignation 35:21
- III: The Inquest 1:00:20
- IV: French Makes a Start 1:19:44
- V: Lee-on-the-Solent 1:37:41
- VI: The Supreme Appeal Court 1:57:37
- VII: Fair Passengers 2:18:50
- VIII: The Grey Car’s Round 2:44:06
- IX: French Makes a Second Assignation 3:00:01
- X: Mr. Cracksman French 3:18:38
- XI: The Happy Paterfamilias 3:36:08
- XII: The Car’s Freight 3:56:30
- XIII: The Transport of Supplies 4:21:32
- XIV: The Property Adjoining 4:47:48
- XV: Mr. Cullimore Expounds 5:15:47
- XVI: In the Net 5:42:39
- XVII: The Shadows Loom Nearer 6:06:43
- XVIII: When Greek Meets Greek 6:32:05
- XIX: Conclusion 6:58:19
A young woman’s body is hauled out of the English Channel by a passing yacht, and it matches the description of a woman named Thurza Darke given in a circular from Inspector French of Scotland Yard. Just the day before he’d been sitting alongside Thurza, listening to her story about the “suicide” of her friend. Thurza had been ensnared in a scam perpetrated by a man with a purple sickle-shaped birthmark on his wrist, and had realized that this was the same man her friend had mentioned shortly before her death. With two potentially linked murders on his hands, Inspector French is determined to stop any further bloodshed.
The fifth in Freeman Wills Crofts’ long-running Inspector French series, this novel sees French more stumped than usual with false leads taking him away from the scent, but it’s difficult to keep the dogged detective confused for long.