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Freeman Wills Crofts

Freeman Wills Crofts

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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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The cask
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The Ponson Case
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The Cheyne Mystery
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The Sea Mystery
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Death on the way
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Crime at Guildford
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Mystery on Southampton Water
Representative edition published 2020
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The Box Office Murders
Representative edition published 2020
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The Anatomy of murder
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Six Against the Yard
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The Hog's Back mystery
Representative edition published 2018
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Mystery in the channel
Representative edition published 2017
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Antidote to venom
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The Loss of the Jane Vosper
Representative edition published 2011
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The affair at Little Wokeham
Representative edition published 2001
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James Tarrant Adventurer
Representative edition published 2001
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The 12:30 from Croydon
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Anything to Declare?
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The End of Andrew Harrison
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Enemy Unseen
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Fatal venture
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French strikes oil
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Golden Ashes
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A Losing Game
Representative edition published 2001
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