| The Sea Mystery | |
| Author: | Freeman Wills Crofts |
| Cover Artist: | H. Dixon |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Inspector French |
| Genre: | Mystery |
| Publisher: | Collins |
| Release Date: | 1928 |
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| Preceded By: | Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy |
The Sea Mystery is a 1928 detective novel by Freeman Wills Crofts.[1] It is the fourth in a series of novels featuring Inspector French of Scotland Yard.[2] As with a number of his works Crofts creates a puzzling mystery which French is then able to solve using a Tide table and Bradshaw's Guide to the railways.[3] The plot has some similarities with his debut novel The Cask (1920).[4]
French of Scotland Yard is called in when a fisherman discovers a crate containing a battered body on the cost of South Wales. His investigations eventually take him to Devon.