Crofts, Freeman Wills,  1879-1957 <br/><br/>
The Cheyne mystery 
 Inspector French and the Cheyne mystery 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cheyne_Mystery  Release date is 2024-02-18 
<br/><br/>Brian Raiter  Brian Raiter 
<br/><br/> "The Cheyne Mystery" by Freeman Wills Crofts is a mystery thriller novel published in 1926. When naval veteran and writer Maxwell Cheyne is drugged, burgled, and then kidnapped by a criminal gang searching for a mysterious coded letter, he finds himself drawn into a dangerous conspiracy. Aided by a spirited young artist, Cheyne pursues the villains from Plymouth to London's Wembley suburbs. Only after narrowly escaping death does he turn to Scotland Yard's methodical Inspector French, whose investigation leads across Europe to uncover secrets tied to a deceased German U-boat captain. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Detective and mystery stories Police -- Great Britain -- Fiction French, Joseph (Fictitious character) -- Fiction 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR