{"product_id":"9780008137724_the-rogues-syndicate-the-maelstrom-detective-club-crime-classics","title":"The Rogues’ Syndicate: The Maelstrom (Detective Club Crime Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis exciting thriller by the late Frank Froest, himself a detective of international fame, will satisfy the most exacting of detective story connoisseurs. Against a familiar London background we have here a tale of breath-taking adventure – knifing, arson, racing-taxicabs, and shooting-to-kill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLost in a London fog, young Jimmie Hallett is accosted by a frightened woman who hands him a package and flees. Within hours, he is being questioned about the murder of the girl’s father and a dangerous international conspiracy. Can genial detective Weir Menzies, even with all the resources of Scotland Yard behind him, succeed in outwitting a faceless gang of organised thieves and killers?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Froëst, the highly decorated Superintendent of Scotland Yard’s C.I.D., began his retirement from the Metropolitan Police by writing \u003cem\u003eThe Grell Mystery\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed as the first crime novel to incorporate authentic police procedures. With George Dilnot, co-author of the story collection \u003cem\u003eThe Crime Club\u003c\/em\u003e, Froëst wrote one more novel, the ambitious and thrilling \u003cem\u003eThe Rogues’ Syndicate\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1916 and also released as a silent movie, \u003cem\u003eMillionaire Hallet’s Adventure\u003c\/em\u003e. The book was republished in April 1930 by the Detective Story Club, but was inadvertently sourced from an abridged, Americanised version called \u003cem\u003eThe Maelstrom\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Detective Club classic restores the full text of the British first edition, and includes an introduction by the Detective Story Club’s original series editor, F. T. Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frank Froest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47285319991445,"sku":"9780008137724","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008137724.jpg?v=1776992364","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008137724_the-rogues-syndicate-the-maelstrom-detective-club-crime-classics","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}