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The Pit-Prop Syndicate
章节(20)
- Part I: The Amateurs: I: The Sawmill on the Lesque 0:00
- II: An Interesting Suggestion 26:07
- III: The Start of the Cruise 50:30
- IV: A Commercial Proposition 1:18:33
- V: The Visit of the Girondin 1:49:18
- VI: A Change of Venue 2:23:45
- VII: The Ferriby Depot 2:49:35
- VIII: The Unloading of the Girondin 3:12:48
- IX: The Second Cargo 3:36:59
- X: Merriman Becomes Desperate 4:18:16
- XI: An Unexpected Ally 4:46:28
- Part II: The Professionals: XII: Murder! 5:29:41
- XIII: A Promising Clue 5:53:19
- XIV: A Mystifying Discovery 6:15:59
- XV: Inspector Willis Listens In 6:48:26
- XVI: The Secret of the Syndicate 7:14:30
- XVII: “Archer Plants Stuff” 7:43:19
- XVIII: The Bordeaux Lorries 8:21:31
- XIX: Willis Spreads His Net 8:49:14
- XX: The Double Cross 9:29:11
The Pit-Prop Syndicate is a story from the beginning of the golden age of crime fiction. Seymour Merriman, a British wine merchant on business in France, happens upon a syndicate manufacturing pit-props—beams used to prop up mine tunnels—but his eye is caught by one odd detail: their lorry’s number plate mysteriously changes. With the help of his friend Hilliard from the Excise department they dig deeper and uncover a dangerous conspiracy.
Freeman Wills Crofts was a civil engineer, turned author of crime fiction. Though somewhat forgotten today, his style was widely appreciated at the time, and still finds fans of those who like a puzzle where all the loose ends are tied up. During his career he wrote over thirty crime novels; The Pit-Prop Syndicate, published in 1922, was his third.