The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts audiobook.

Genre: mystery

Fog rolls over the Devonshire coast as the tide slowly reveals a chilling discovery: a dismantled packing case containing a man’s body, with every clue deliberately obscured. No name. No obvious motive. No clear trail. From this single grim puzzle, the methodical and quietly relentless Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard begins one of his most intricate investigations. With almost nothing to go on, French must reconstruct a crime that seems to have been engineered to leave no trace—calculating train timetables, analyzing shipping routes, and patiently testing alibis against the unforgiving logic of time and place. Freeman Wills Crofts, a master of the classic “howdunit,” invites you into a world where reason, persistence, and tiny overlooked details are the keys to unlocking murder. As the clues carry French from remote coastal villages to industrial centers and shadowy docks, the narrative tightens like a noose, each new fact snapping into place with almost mathematical precision. This audiobook is a slow-burn intellectual pleasure: atmospheric, grounded in realistic police work, and deeply satisfying as every piece of the puzzle finally clicks into a perfectly constructed solution. Listeners who love Golden Age detective fiction, ingenious plotting, and fair-play mysteries will find “The Sea Mystery” an absorbing experience from the first shrouded clue to the last, devastating revelation.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00 ) Chapter 01

(00:25:56 ) Chapter 02

(00:54:02 ) Chapter 03

(01:21:29 ) Chapter 04

(01:47:16 ) Chapter 05

(02:06:00 ) Chapter 06

(02:23:17 ) Chapter 07

(02:54:09 ) Chapter 08

(03:19:35 ) Chapter 09

(03:44:25 ) Chapter 10

(04:09:20 ) Chapter 11

(04:27:42 ) Chapter 12

(04:58:06 ) Chapter 13

(05:28:30 ) Chapter 14

(05:53:01 ) Chapter 15

(06:18:21 ) Chapter 16

(06:38:38 ) Chapter 17

(07:07:39 ) Chapter 18

(07:32:25 ) Chapter 19

(08:13:43 ) Chapter 20

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