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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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Derleth, August
1909 - 1971
American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. W...
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Parker, T. Jefferson
1953 -
T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the...
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Tokarczuk, Olga
1962 -
Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential...
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Bailey, H.C.
1878 - 1961
The British journalist and critic Henry Christopher Bailey is one of the five greatest crime novelists associated with the...
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