The Losing Game is a 1941 detective novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Freeman Wills Crofts.

[1] It is the twenty second in his series of novels featuring the Golden Age detective Inspector French of Scotland Yard.

It was published in the United States by Dodd, Mead under the alternative title A Losing Game.

[2] At his cottage outside a town thirty miles west of London, a moneylender with a successful sideline in blackmail is murdered and his property set on fire.

With the novelist on remand on a charge for murder, French with assistance from the man's sister, is able to discover that the real killer's motive sprung from another crime committed many years before in Australia.