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Sample of authors
Crofts, Freeman Wills
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young. Because his mother then married an archdeacon, Croft was brought up in a deeply religious home. He studied engineering, and at the age of seventeen he became an apprentice at the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway where he stayed until 1929 when he left for health...
Literary figures
Craig Kennedy
Gender: Male
Forensic expert, Craig Kennedy, is a professor of Chemistry at Columbia University in New York, but also works as a private detective and consultant for the police and others. Arthur B. Reeve has written a lot about his cases, but little about the man himself. Kennedy has clear-cut features and is unmarried. He shares a house with journalist Walter Jameson, who is the first-person narrator in...