Freeman Wills Crofts
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The Chichester is making a routine journey across the English Channel on a pleasant afternoon in June, when the steamer{u2019}s crew notice something strange. A yacht, bobbing about in the water ahead of them, appears to have been abandoned, and there is a dark red stain on the deck{u2026} Two bodies later, with no sign of a gun, there certainly is a mystery in the channel.
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Several local residents have disappeared in suspicious circumstances at the Hog's Back ridge in Surrey. When a doctor vanishes, followed by a nurse with whom he was acquainted, Inspector French deduces murder, but there are no bodies. Can he eventually prove his theory and show that murder has been committed?