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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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Clark, Mary Higgins
1927 - 2020
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Bernuth, Christa
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The German journalist and crime author Christa von Bernuth was born in Munich where she still lives. After attending...
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Harvey, John
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The British author, editor and teacher John Barton Harvey grew up in London where he attended St. Aloysius College. He...
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Cash, Wiley
1977 -
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