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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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![Författarporträtt av Tvedt, Chris](images/writer/6741/wm_BR_6741_20160316145447_Large.jpg)
Tvedt, Chris
1954 -
The Norwegian author Baard Christian Tvedt was born in Bergen. He read architecture at the University of Birmingham, but...
Further reading![Portrait image of MacKinlay Kantor](images/writer/2440/6197e7b547d41f8e9635dcc963059affc00987c9ba882.jpg)
Kantor, MacKinlay
1904 - 1977
The author and journalist MacKinlay Kantor was born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor in Webster City, Iowa. His father, John Martin...
Further reading![Portrait of Elizabeth Haynes](images/writer/6365/6093f49f9394c5ff4e2bddc07827ae51e7f8b8038f2ab.jpg)
Haynes, Elizabeth
1971 -
Elizabeth Haynes is a British author of crime fiction. She grew up in Seaford, Sussex and read English, German and Art...
Further reading![Portrait of Ngaio Marsh](images/writer/1134/609a9465d5f9aded0085dc2e0c883e1a24b969c84b4bd.jpg)
Marsh, Ngaio
1895 - 1982
The New Zealand author Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh was born in Merivale, Christchurch. Her father was an immigrant English bank...
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