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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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Hodgson, William Hope
1877 - 1918
William Hope Hodgson was the son of an Anglican priest who grew up in England and Ireland alongside his eleven sisters and...
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Crais, Robert
1953 -
Robert Crais is an American author born in Independence, Louisiana, and brought up on the banks of the Mississippi River in...
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Bradley, Alan
1938 -
Alan Bradley was born in Toronto, Canada. He grew up with his mother and two sisters in the town of Cobourg, about one...
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Cook, Robin (1940-)
1940 -
American doctor, businessman and author, who has written a long row of thriller-like medical crime novels, many of which...
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