| The Box Office Murders | |
| Author: | Freeman Wills Crofts |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Inspector French |
| Genre: | Mystery |
| Publisher: | Collins |
| Release Date: | 1929 |
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| Preceded By: | The Sea Mystery |
| Followed By: | Sir John Magill's Last Journey |
The Box Office Murders is a 1929 detective novel by the Irish-born writer Freeman Wills Crofts. It is the fifth in his series of novels featuring Inspector French, a prominent figure of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.[1] It was published in the United States the same year by Harper under the alternative title The Purple Sickle Murders.[2]
French becomes involved in a case that sees several female cinema box office cashiers die in mysterious circumstances.