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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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Childers, Erskine
1870 - 1922
The British author Robert Erskine Childers (not to be confused with his son Erskine Hamilton Childers, the fourth president...
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Osman, Richard
1970 -
Richard Osman is an English comedian, TV-personality and programme presenter who made his international writing...
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McBain, Ed
1926 - 2005
Ed McBain is the best-known pen name for Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Alberto Lombino, a versatile and prolific American...
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O'Donnell, Peter
1920 - 2010
Peter O’Donnell was a British author born in Lewisham, London, to an Irish family. His father was a well-known crime r...
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