The Cask
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Police -- England -- Fiction; Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Description: <p>During the unloading of an Insular and Continental Steam Navigation Company ship arrived from Rouen, the <i>Bullfinch</i>, a cask falls, splits, and reveals its unexpected contents. As the dockworkers try to work out what to do, <abbr>Mr.</abbr> Léon Felix arrives and claims the cask as his own. His actions set into motion a complicated trail for the detectives of London’s Scotland Yard and Paris’s Sûreté to follow to the end.</p>
			<p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/freeman-wills-crofts">Freeman Wills Crofts</a> was one of many authors writing crime fiction in Britain in the 1920s and 30s, and was a contemporary and acquaintance of both <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie">Agatha Christie</a> and Raymond Chandler. <i>The Cask</i>, his first novel, was written during leave from his job as a railway engineer, but its reception was good enough to set Crofts on the course of a further thirty crime novels over his career as an author.</p>