Sudden Death

by Freeman Wills Crofts

Inspector French (8)

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To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television. Anne Day is the new housekeeper at Frayle, the home of Mr Grinsmead and his invalid wife. To Anne's horror, her intuition that something is very wrong in the house culminates in an unexpected death. With the police jumping to devastating conclusions, Inspector French arrives to show more investigate. With the narrative switching between Anne's and French's perspectives, giving alternately the outside and inside track of an ingenious and elaborate investigation, will tragedy strike a second time before the mystery is solved? show less

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Anne Day has recently lost her father and as he was a Vicar she has lost her home, now she has a chance at being a housekeeper for the Grinsmead famlily in their house Frayle (back when people had multiple servants, including a maid, a cook and a governess). Mrs Grinsmede is somewhat paranoid and convince that someone wants to kill her, which proves prophetic. The first of the locked room deaths; her's could be construed as suicide but Anne has her doubts. When Mr Grinsmede turns up dead in his room, again a locked room mystery it also looks like suicide but something is off to both Anne and when Inspector French becomes involved in the mystery, he's also not sure but he feels a need to ferret out the truth.
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Seppälä, Heikki (Translator)

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Canonical title
Sudden Death
Original title
Sudden Death
Original publication date
1932
People/Characters
Joseph French (Inspector)
First words
No one would have though from Anne Day's appearance, as she sat with closed eyes in the corner of her third-class carriage, that her mind was seething with a delicious excitement.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)French's congratulations on her new home were both respectful and hearty.

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
823.912Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991901-1945
LCC
PR6005 .R675Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1900-1960
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