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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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Graham, Caroline
1931 -
The withdrawn British novelist and playwright Caroline Graham is best known for her seven police novels about Detective...
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Cross, Amanda
1926 - 2003
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was a successful American academic, feminist and author of a series of mystery novels published under...
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Muñoz Molina, Anto
1956 -
The Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina was born at Úbeda in Jaén, Andalucia where he attended the Santo Domingo Savio Je...
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Kellerman, Jonathan
1949 -
Jonathan Kellerman is an American author of thrillers. He was born in New York where he attended the Yeshiva of Central...
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