The Cask
by Freeman Wills Crofts
459 pages~8 hrs
“One broken cask. One grisly secret. One impossible puzzle to solve.”
A routine cargo mishap at the London docks exposes a hidden horror within a single cask, launching a high-stakes investigation across the English Channel. Follow Inspector Burnley as he unravels a labyrinthine alibi in this foundational masterpiece of the Golden Age of detective fiction.
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