Frank Froest, George Dilnot

The Crime Club (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Detective Story Club's first short story anthology is based around a London detective club and includes three newly discovered tales unpublished for 100 years, plus a story bearing an uncanny resemblance to a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story but written some seven years earlier.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008137342
• Artikelnr.: 44768795

Autorenporträt

Frank Castle Froëst was born in the West of England around 1858. He joined the Metropolitan Police as a police constable in 1879 and worked his way up to Inspector at Scotland Yard by 1894, Chief Inspector in 1903 and Superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) from 1906 to his retirement in 1912. Working with the journalist George Dilnot, he wrote The Grell Mystery (1913), the story collection The Crime Club (1915) and The Rogues' Syndicate (1916). After his wife died in 1916, Frank moved into politics and was elected to Somerset County Council. He died in 1930.