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It is 145 years today since Freeman Wills Crofts was born.
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...
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Ohlsson, Kristina
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The Swedish author Kristina Ohlsson was born and grew up in Kristianstad as one of six siblings. As a child she was sickly,...
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Parker, T. Jefferson
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T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the...
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Lehane, Dennis
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The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the...
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Rimington, Stella
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Dame Stella Rimington is a British author of spy novels. She is a former intelligence officer, she was the first female...
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