Crime at Guildford | |
Author: | Freeman Wills Crofts |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Series: | Inspector French |
Genre: | Mystery |
Publisher: | Collins Crime Club |
Release Date: | 1935 |
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Preceded By: | Mystery on Southampton Water |
Followed By: | The Loss of the Jane Vosper |
Crime at Guildford is a 1935 detective novel by the writer Freeman Wills Crofts.[1] Crofts was a leading figure of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and often set his novels in Surrey where he lived close to Guildford. It was the thirteenth in a series of novels featuring Inspector French. It was published in America by Dodd Mead under the alternative title The Crime at Nornes.
The accountant of a large but struggling firm of jewellers is murdered while attending a meeting at the managing director's house near Guildford, while at the same time a large robbery takes place at the firm's offices on Kingsway.