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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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Biggers, Earl Derr
1884 - 1933
Earl Derr Biggers was an American journalist, theatre critic and the father of Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective from...
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Canning, Victor
1911 - 1986
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the...
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Parsons, Tony
1953 -
English author and journalist, born and grew up as the only child in a working-class family in Romford, Essex. When Tony...
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Smith, Martin Cruz
1942 -
Martin Cruz Smith, born Martin William Smith, is an American author of thrillers born in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father...
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