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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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Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
1916 - 2014
The American crime writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and adopted by an older childless couple,...
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Brodrick, William
1960 -
The British crime writer William Brodrick was born in Bolton, Lancashire, but when he was eleven years old the family...
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Tvedt, Chris
1954 -
The Norwegian author Baard Christian Tvedt was born in Bergen. He read architecture at the University of Birmingham, but...
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DeMille, Nelson
1943 -
Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. He was born in Queens, New York, to a...
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