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A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television. The new Sir Geoffrey Buller is earning his living in Chicago when he unexpectedly inherits his title, an English baronetcy, and Forde Manor in Surrey, complete with its vast collection of priceless works of art. His widowed housekeeper, who knows a thing or two, is surprised to discover that Sir Geoffrey is having his pictures cleaned. But then disaster show more strikes! A devastating fire, a missing artist and a lot of insurance money - from a mosaic of detail, Inspector French must reconstruct the pattern of a most cunning and complex crime... show lessTags
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A delightful who-done-it that is also a social history of 1930's rural England.
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Penguin Books (1396)
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- Canonical title
- Golden Ashes
- Original title
- Golden Ashes
- Original publication date
- 1940
- People/Characters
- Joseph French (Inspector); Betty Stanton
- Important places
- Forde Manor
- First words
- When Betty Stanton, getting out of bed with a tremulous eagerness, pulled back the curtains of the small poorly furnished room and saw above the grimy brick court that the sky was blue and the sun shining, her spirits rose un... (show all)warrantably.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Agatha Barke wishing to leave London, the two women settled down together near San Remo, at which place the subsequent masterpieces were to achieve birth.
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- Languages
- English, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 10
