Freeman Wills Crofts - Antidote To Venom - 2015 [EN]

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"Antidote to Venom by Freeman Wills Crofts" is a Fiction > Mystery/Thriller title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (0.9 MB). Written by Freeman Wills Crofts. The book spans approximately 262 pages with 83,812 words. Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder "Crofts makes great use of the 'inverted mystery' structure (he was among the first to employ the technique) in which the traditional whodunit is turned on its head, with the reader following the murderer through temptation and commission and then watching the detective sort through the sparse clues." —Booklist STARRED review George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsing; his finances are insecure; and an outbreak of disease threatens the animals in his care. As Surridge's deb...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreClassic Literature, Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction

QualityEPUB

Size0.9 MB

Pages262

ArchivedAug 24, 2026

Synopsis

Eliot was among his many admirers, while Raymond Chandler, who could be grumpy about traditional detective stories, called Crofts ‘the soundest builder of them all’, although he added the caveat: ‘when he doesn’t get too fancy.’ In the years before he wrote this book, Crofts had been experimenting with his detective fiction, trying to escape from the predictable. But starting with The 12.30 from Croydon , which appeared in 1934, Crofts began to vary his approach, producing an ‘inverted story,’ i