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| 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 | 1941 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| Preceded by | Golden Ashes |
| Followed by | The Losing Game |
James Tarrant, Adventurer is a 1941 detective novel by the Irish-born writer Freeman Wills Crofts.[1] It is the twenty-first in his series of novels featuring Chief Inspector French of Scotland Yard, written during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Published in Britain by Hodder and Stoughton, it was released in America by Dodd Mead under the alternative title Circumstantial Evidence.
It was one of a number of novels by Crofts during the period which portray overly acquisitive businessman in a bad light[2] and constitutes an attack on patent medicines.[3]