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.

Crime at Guildford
First edition
AuthorFreeman Wills Crofts
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector French
GenreMystery
PublisherCollins Crime Club
Publication date
1935
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byMystery on Southampton Water 
Followed byThe Loss of the Jane Vosper 

Synopsis

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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.

References

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  1. ^ Reilly p.396

Bibliography

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  • Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.