// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did the ticket say at The Box Office Murders? You've been killed for a seat.
 First edition | |
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Inspector French |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Publisher | Collins |
| Publication date | 1929 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | The Sea Mystery |
| Followed by | Sir John Magill's Last Journey |
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]
Synopsis
[edit]French becomes involved in a case that sees several female cinema box office cashiers die in mysterious circumstances.
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- 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.
External links
[edit]- The Box Office Murders at Standard Ebooks
- Full text of The Box Office Murders at Faded Page
- The Purple Sickle Murders at Project Gutenberg
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