French Strikes Oil
 First Edition (UK) | |
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Inspector French |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton (UK) Dodd Mead (US) |
Publication date | 1951 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Silence for the Murderer |
| Followed by | Anything to Declare? |
French Strikes Oil is a 1951 detective novel by the Irish-born writer Freeman Wills Crofts. It is the twenty eighth and penultimate entry in his series of novels featuring Inspector French, a Scotland Yard detective of the Golden Age known for his methodical technique. [1] It was published in the United States by Dodd Mead under the alternative title of Dark Journey.[2]
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.
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