• Source: Inspector French

      • Inspector Joseph French is a fictional British police detective created by Irish author Freeman Wills Crofts. French was a prominent detective from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, appearing in twenty-nine novels and a number of short stories between 1924 and 1957. The character was introduced in the 1924 novel Inspector French's Greatest Case, where he investigates a fatal diamond robbery in Hatton Garden. The series relied largely on puzzle mysteries.


      Overview


      French was a prominent detective from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, appearing in twenty nine novels and a number of short stories between 1924 and 1957. French is a Scotland Yard detective, whose methodical technique breaks down complex alibis. Over the course of the series, he is promoted to Chief Inspector and the later to Superintendent. His manner is courteous, he is happily married and has no major problems in his private life.


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      Adaptations




      = BBC Radio

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      Several adaptations of the French stories were produced for BBC Radio over the years:

      1943-1945 saw a series for the General Forces Programme entitled "Chief Inspector French's Cases", starring Milton Rosmer, and featuring original scripts written by Crofts himself.
      Adaptations for the Home Service in the 1950s included Mr. Pemberton's Commission with Roger Delgado, The Greuze with Norman Mitchell, and East Wind with Frank Tickle.
      In 1984, the short story "The Yang Chi Jade" was adapted for Radio Four's Saturday Night Theatre with William Eedle as French, whilst a 1987 dramatisation of Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy starred Edward de Souza as the Inspector.


      = Proposed television series

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      In July 2019, Brendan Foley was announced to adapt the Inspector French novels as a television series, with independent production company Free@LastTV on board to produce. There has been no word on the series since then.


      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.
      James, Russell. Great British Fictional Detectives. Remember When, 2009.
      Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

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