The Hog's Back Mystery

The Hog's Back Mystery (1933), also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Earle, is a "Golden Age" mystery novel by the Irish author Freeman Wills Crofts. It is the tenth novel in his Inspector French series.[1] The novel is an early example of the police procedural subgenre of detective fiction. It was the first of Croft's books published by Hodder & Stoughton.[2] It was reissued in 2015 by British Library Publishing.