The Pit-Prop Syndicate

About This Book

Stranded on a French highway, a wine merchant discovers a conspiracyTwenty-six kilometers from Bordeaux, Seymour Merriman's motorcycle runs low on gas. He is waiting for a passing motorist to come to his rescue when he notices a lorry turn down a nearby country road. Following it leads him to a mill, where an English firm manufactures pit-props for coal mines. They give him two liters of petrol and send him on his way, but not before he sees something odd. The lorry he saw on the road was marked No. 4, but it has been changed to No. 3--a peculiar incident that will lead Merriman into the great...