num_pages: 326
description: As pretty a piece of work as Inspector French has done  On the level of Mr Crofts very best; which is saying something.  Daily TelegraphDr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hogs Back a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage Inspector French is called in to investigate. At first he suspects a simple domestic intrigue  and begins to uncover a web of romantic entanglements beneath the couples peaceful rural life.The case soon takes a more complex turn. Other people vanish mysteriously one of Dr Earles house guests among them. What is the explanation for the disappearances? If the missing people have been murdered what can be the motive? This fiendishly complicated puzzle is one that only Inspector French can solve.Freeman Wills Crofts was a master of the intricately and ingeniously plotted detective novel and The Hogs Back Mystery shows him at the height of his powers. This new edition of a classic mystery is introduced by the crime fiction expert Martin Edwards.
language: English
title: The Hog's Back Mystery
publisher: Poisoned Pen Press