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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
The Groote Park Murder
By Keen Reader
I first came across the author’s books when picking up some of the re-issued British Library Crime Classic novels. This one, while not part of that series, has been published this year as part of a Collins Crime Club series, as part of their Detective Story Club series which started in 1929 and which publishes classic books that influenced the Golden Age of crime fiction.The book, first published in 1923 is introduced by a short essay by the author, on “The Writing of a Detective Novel”. The book then starts with the discovery of a body on the railway line in Middeldorp, in South Africa. Inspector Vandam is on the case straight away.This is quite an unusual story; taking place in two quite distinct parts, and those two parts have quite a different ‘feel’ to them, with the impetus and motivations shifting with the narrative. A totally engaging mystery, this is also a great read, with wonderful characterisations, and is thoroughly recommended to any lover of classic mystery stories.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Never agree to meet in a lonely place!
By John Austin
Trudging along a railway line, on his way home after completing an all-night shift, a railway signalman discovers a man's body on the track inside a tunnel. It is clear that the man has been struck by a passing rain and that the injuries are terrible.Crofts provides this opening to his 1923 crime novel, and thereafter sets out his detection puzzle with his usual expertise and craftsmanship. This is one of his earlier books. To his talents for story telling, time tabling, and depicting courtroom procedure, he displays here his skill at describing settings and geographic locations. The second half of this novel is set in Scotland. To read the descriptions of Ballachulish, Crianlarich, and the lochs thereabouts is to want to visit the locations, to want to traverse the journeys, and to measure the distances as told here.Crofts sets the first half of the book in South Africa, initiating a pattern followed by several other "golden age of detective fiction" writers of the 1920s and 1930s. The investigation of the initial murder proceeds very rapidly. Croft had not yet created his Inspector French, but the methods of detection are the same. Then, a subsequent crime in Scotland follows the same pattern: the victim is enticed to a meeting at a lonely place by the lure of vital information. Yes, the criminal is the same in each case - but who is he? You, like the investigating officer, will be in for a surprise!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Not so much who as how?
By Mrs. R.
Freeman Wills Crofts occasionally tells us first who did it, then lets us watch as his police detective sifts clues, follows them up meticulously and eventually, arduously gets his baddy. Croft's murderers are usually really bad ones too; he wrote in a time when murderers were hanged and always makes sure that his readers felt that "the ultimate penalty" would be thoroughly deserved.The Groote Park Murder is one of those where we actually don't know who did it. There is not much room with Crofts for the psychology of crime. If he finds a motive then he follows it up as ever; it's the clues and the painfully slow process of cracking seemingly unbreakable alibis that get us to the bottom of the mystery, not a clever interview with the suspect. None of that modern malarky here. Unusually, this one starts outside the British Isles, in South Africa with Inspector Vandam, and moves to Scotland where Inspector French takes over. True to form there's a lot about railway timetables, a clever criminal disguising his tracks, and a risky plot to catch the perpetrator and a slow, simmering build up to tension and suspense which grab you unexpectedly because you've failed to notice how stealthily they've been creeping up.I don't usually liken detective novels to Henry James, but don't let the long, slow start put you off. At the beginning you might be wondering why you bothered but, as with James, by the time you get to the middle you're hooked.

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