A deadly fire swept through Starvel House, resulting in the death of its owner, the elderly Simon Averill, as well as his two servants. The inquest called it a terrible accident. But then a single twenty-pound note turns up, only it should have been burnt, along with the rest of the over thirty-thousand pounds Averill …
Continue reading Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy by Freeman Wills Crofts (1927)