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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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Hawkins, Paula
1972 -
Paula Hawkins grew up in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Her father was an economics professor and journalist....
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MacBride, Stuart
1969 -
Stuart MacBride is a Scottish author of crime fiction. He was born in Dumbarton near Glasgow and grew up in Aberdeen where...
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Adams, Herbert
1874 - 1958
British author that would have been largely forgotten had it not been for his being the first and most prolific author of...
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Blackwood, Algernon
1869 - 1951
The British author Algernon Henry Blackwood grew up in a strictly religious home in Kent. He soon abandoned his Christian...
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