{"product_id":"2940170358496","title":"Groote Park Murder, The (Detective Club Crime Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a straightforward case of a man struck by a passing train. But Inspector Vandam of the Middeldorp police isn¿t satisfied that Albert Smith¿s death was accidental, and he sets out to prove foul play in a baffling mystery which crosses continents from deepest South Africa to the wilds of northern Scotland, where an almost identical crime appears to have been perpetrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Groote Park Murder\u003c\/i\u003e was the last of Freeman Wills Crofts¿ stand-alone crime novels, foreshadowing his iconic Inspector French series and helping to cement his reputation (according to his publishers) as `the greatest and most popular detective writer in the world¿. Like \u003ci\u003eThe Cask\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ponson Case\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pit-Prop Syndicate\u003c\/i\u003e before it, here were a delightfully ingenious plot, impeccable handling of detail and an overwhelming surprise `curtain¿ from a masterful crime writer on the cusp of global success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Detective Club classic is introduced with an essay by Freeman Wills Crofts, unseen since 1937, about The Writing of a Detective Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117369213168,"sku":"2940170358496","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170358496_p0.jpg?v=1763708614","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170358496","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}