The Cask - stempel van "The Book Drive Glasgow 1944"

Bij Book Drives werden boeken en tijdschriften verzameld tijdens WO II voor de soldaten aan het front.
Dit is zo'n boek: inscriptie: "This book was collected during the book drive, 21st Oct. to 4th Nov. 1944 and is sent with best wishes from the citizens of Glasgow."

The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts
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The Cask is a 1920 detective novel by the Irish-born writer Freeman Wills Crofts. His debut novel, it is considered his masterpiece.
Long after the author's reputation had declined, this book was still hailed by critics as a cornerstone of the genre.
Crofts had been working as a railway engineer before writing the novel, but its success launched him as one of the leading writers of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. He later went on to create the character of Inspector French of Scotland Yard who appeared in a long-running series of novels.

The unloading of a consignment of French wine from the steamship Bullfinch is interrupted by a gruesome discovery in a broken cask leaking sawdust and gold sovereigns. But when the shipping clerk returns with the police, the cask and its macabre contents have gone. Following the clues to Paris, Inspector Burnley of Scotland Yard enlists the help of the genial French detective M. Lefarge to check motives and alibis in their hunt for evidence of a particularly fiendish murder.