French strikes oil

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The political, moral and environmental aspects of the discovery of oil in rural England provide a surprisingly modern start to this story, set in the early 1950s. A violent death occurs, the rest of the family behave stupidly, suspicion flies in all directions and Inspector French painstakingly, and at length, untangles the problem.