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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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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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Archer, Jeffrey
1940 -
Jeffrey Howard Archer is a British author, former politician and peer of the realm surrounded by scandal. His thrillers and...
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Tuomainen, Antti
1971 -
A Finnish author and journalist who gained international attention with his crime novels. They are translated into a number...
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Mullen, Thomas
1974 -
The American author Thomas Mullen was born on Rhode Island. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode...
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