The Box Office Murders

The Box Office Murders

File:The Box Office Murders.jpg First edition
Author	Freeman Wills Crofts
Language	English
Series	Inspector French
Genre	Mystery
Publisher	Collins
Publication date	1929
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Preceded by	The Sea Mystery
Followed by	Sir John Magill's Last Journey

The Box Office Murders is a 1929 detective novel by the Irish-born writer Freeman Wills Crofts. It is the fifth in his series of novels featuring Inspector French, a prominent figure of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. It was published in the United States the same year by Harper under the alternative title The Purple Sickle Murders.

Synopsis

French becomes involved in a case that sees several female cinema box office cashiers die in mysterious circumstances.

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.
• Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.