The Box Office Murders

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]

The Box Office Murders
First edition
AuthorFreeman Wills Crofts
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector French
GenreMystery
PublisherCollins
Publication date
1929
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byThe Sea Mystery 
Followed bySir John Magill's Last Journey 

Synopsis

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French becomes involved in a case that sees several female cinema box office cashiers die in mysterious circumstances.

References

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  1. ^ Evans p.148
  2. ^ 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.
  • Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.