the pit prop syndicate Author:freeman wills crofts seymour merriman, junior partner in a firm of london wine merchants, is motorcycling across the french countryside when he hears a truck in the distance. as it approaches he turns idly to watch it pass. this slight, almost involuntary, movement is to change his whole life. For he noticed one detail about the truck--a detail that leads him into t... more »he middle of a criminal conspiracy.« less