''Found Floating'' is a 1937

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by the Irish writer Freeman Wills Crofts. It is the sixteenth in his series of novels featuring

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, a

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detective of the

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known for his methodical technique.Evans p.41

References

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. 1937 British novels Novels by Freeman Wills Crofts British crime novels British mystery novels British thriller novels British detective novels Hodder & Stoughton books Irish mystery novels Irish crime novels Novels set in London Novels set in Scotland Novels set in Birmingham, West Midlands Novels set in Spain {{1930s-mystery-novel-stub