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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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Vidocq, Eugène François
1775 - 1857
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Grisham, John
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American author, lawyer and politician born in Jonesboro, Arkansas. His father was a construction worker who travelled...
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Parker, Robert B.
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Robert Brown Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father was head of a telephone company. Parker...
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Thompson, Jim
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