French Strikes Oil
First Edition (UK) | |
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Inspector French |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton (UK) Dodd Mead (US) |
Publication date | 1951 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| 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. It was published in the United States by Dodd Mead under the alternative title of Dark Journey.
No further French novel appeared for six years after this, although he featured in a short story collection The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express published in 1956.