The cover page is adapted from The Sea Mystery, a painting completed in 1928 by Harry Dixon. 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 Sea Mystery
章节(20)
- I: Mr. Morgan Meets Tragedy 0:00
- II: Inspector French Gets Busy 24:45
- III: Experimental Detection 51:09
- IV: A Change of Venue 1:16:00
- V: Messrs. Berlyn and Pyke 1:39:18
- VI: The Despatch of the Crate 1:56:30
- VII: Dartmoor 2:12:19
- VIII: A Fresh Start 2:39:03
- IX: A Step Forward 3:02:33
- X: London’s Further Contribution 3:26:06
- XI: John Gurney, Night Watchman 3:48:48
- XII: The Duplicator 4:05:25
- XIII: The Accomplice? 4:32:30
- XIV: French Turns Fisherman 4:59:27
- XV: Blackmail 5:21:15
- XVI: Certainty at Last 5:43:42
- XVII: “Danger!” 6:01:24
- XVIII: On Hampstead Heath 6:27:59
- XIX: The Bitterness of Death 6:50:11
- XX: Conclusion 7:26:17
A body of a man is discovered after a chance recovery of a crate from the bottom of a Welsh bay. The local police realize that this is outside their jurisdiction, and soon welcome Inspector French into the investigation. While there’s little to go on initially, French’s approach to methodically breaking down the problem and questioning everyone about everything soon starts to throw up some leads that show just how much care the murderer has put into covering their tracks.
This is the fourth in Freeman Wills Crofts’ classic Inspector French series. French is never happy until every last clue and tidbit of information has been slotted into their rightful place, and his process for doing so is so methodical that the original cover proudly announced that the reader could “listen in to Scotland Yard!”