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Freeman Wills Crofts

1 June 1879 - 11 April 1957

Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, the son of a deceased Army Medical Service surgeon-lieutenant. His mother re-married Jonathan Harding, the Vicar of Gilford, and Crofts spent his childhood in the Gilford vicarage. He attended Methodist College and Campbell College in Belfast. At age eighteen, he was apprenticed to his uncle, Berkeley Deane Wise, who was chief engineer of the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway. He eventually became Chief Assistant Engineer at the Railway.

In 1919, during an illness-induced absence from work, he wrote his first novel, The Cask (1920), which established him as a new master of detective fiction. Crofts continued to write steadily, producing a book almost every year for thirty years, in addition to a number of short stories and plays.

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  • Cover of: The Pit-Prop Syndicate
    First published in 1922 47 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition pitpropsyndicat00crofgoog

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  • Cover of: The Cask
    First published in 1920 35 editions in 2 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition cihm_66060 Cover of edition cask0000crof_i9u5

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  • Cover of: Inspector French's Greatest Case
    First published in 1925 22 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition inspectorfrenchs0000crof

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  • Cover of: The Cheyne mystery
    First published in 1926 18 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Mystery in the Channel
    First published in 1931 15 editions in 1 language — 4 previewable Cover of edition mysteryinchannel0000free Cover of edition mysteryinchannel0000crof_w4g7 Cover of edition mysteryinchannel0000crof_g5y1

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    First published in 1934 14 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition 1230fromcroydon0000crof_m8m9

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  • Cover of: The Groote Park Murder
    First published in 1925 12 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Sea Mystery
    First published in 1928 11 editions in 1 language

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  • Cover of: English country house murders: tales of perfidious albion

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  • Cover of: Antidote to venom
    First published in 1938 11 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition antidotetovenom0000crof_u6i7 Cover of edition antidotetovenom0000crof_a5g5

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  • Cover of: The Hog's Back mystery
    First published in 1933 10 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition hogsbackmystery0000crof_l8j3

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    First published in 1940 9 editions in 1 language

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  • Cover of: Sir John Magill's Last Journey

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    First published in 1927 8 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition ponsoncasestoryo0000crof

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