{"product_id":"crime-at-guildford-1800164","title":"Crime at Guildford","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8vo., publisher’s instantly-recognisable orange cloth, lettered in black to upper cover and spine; pp. [vi], 7-315, [v, ads]; spine and lower board lightly sunned, slight pushing to spine tips; endpapers browned and a little offset; else a bright, clean copy, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst edition\u003c\/b\u003e, which was published in the U.S. under the title ‘The Crime at Nornes’.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe prolific crime writer Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Ireland, but moved to Blackheath near Guildford in 1929, and therefore began to set many of his novels in and around the area. \u003ci\u003eThe Hogs Back Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1933, and two years later this, \u003ci\u003eCrime at Guildford \u003c\/i\u003efollowed. His 13th Inspector French novel, the plot follows the accountant of a jewellers firm, who is found mysteriously murdered while attending a meeting at his managing directors house in Guildford - at exactly the same time that the shop is burgled. Coincidence? We think not. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lovely novel by one of the leading figures of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e1800164\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fold the Corner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56990276845892,"sku":"1800164","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8711\/0212\/files\/1800164_b308de72-636b-44d4-b9f8-c29c1c1183cc.jpg?v=1784202938","url":"https:\/\/foldthecornerbooks.co.uk\/products\/crime-at-guildford-1800164","provider":"Fold the Corner Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}