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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
Thatcher Colt
Gender: Male
Police commissioner in New York, and the main character in eight orthodox whodunnits by Anthony Abbot (pseudonym for Fulton Oursler). Thatcher Colt is middle-aged, dark haired and brown eyed, born in a rich family, well educated, interested in poetry and always well dressed. He is a bachelor, but after a few novels he marries Florence Dunbar. He is also a skilled professional who solves the most...