Frank Froest

Frank Castle Froëst was born in the West of England around 1858, and he joined the Metropolitan Police in 1879. On his retirement, Frank Froëst and his wife Sarah moved to Axbridge in Somerset, where he became a justice of the peace. Working with the journalist George Dilnot, he wrote The Grell Mystery and in return he helped Dilnot with his history of the Metropolitan Police, The Story of Scotland Yard (1915). Together they co-authored two further works of fiction: The Crime Club (1915) and The Rogues' Syndicate (1916). After his wife died in 1916, Frank Froëst lost his appetite for writing about crime. He moved into politics instead and was elected to Somerset County Council. He died in 1930 in a convalescent home at Weston-super-Mare.