Crime at Guildford

{{Short description|1935 novel}} {{infobox book | name = Crime at Guildford | title_orig = | translator = | image =File:Crime at Guildford.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Freeman Wills Crofts | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = Inspector French | genre = Mystery | publisher = Collins Crime Club | release_date = 1935 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = Mystery on Southampton Water | followed_by = The Loss of the Jane Vosper }} '''''Crime at Guildford''''' is a 1935 detective novel by the writer Freeman Wills Crofts.<ref>Reilly p.396</ref> Crofts was a leading figure of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and often set his novels in Surrey where he lived close to Guildford. It was the thirteenth in a series of novels featuring Inspector French. It was published in America by Dodd Mead under the alternative title '''''The Crime at Nornes'''''.

==Synopsis== The accountant of a large but struggling firm of jewellers is murdered while attending a meeting at the managing director's house near Guildford, while at the same time a large robbery takes place at the firm's offices on Kingsway.

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==Bibliography== * 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. * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015.

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