The Cask
Freeman Wills Crofts
A cask unloaded at the London docks holds gold coins and a woman's body. Inspector Burnley of Scotland Yard and the Paris police follow shipping records, timetables and alibis in the novel that made Crofts the master of the police procedural.
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