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Freeman Wills Crofts

Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, the son of a deceased Army Medical Service surgeon-lieutenant. His mother re-married Jonathan Harding, the Vicar of Gilford, and Crofts spent his childhood in the Gilford vicarage. He attended Methodist College and Campbell College in Belfast. At age eighteen, he was apprenticed to his uncle, Berkeley Deane Wise, who was chief engineer of the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway. He eventually became Chief Assistant Engineer at the Railway.

In 1919, during an illness-induced absence from work, he wrote his first novel, The Cask (1920), which established him as a new master of detective fiction. Crofts continued to write steadily, producing a book almost every year for thirty years, in addition to a number of short stories and plays.

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Born 1 June 1879
Died 11 April 1957

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  • Cover of: The Pit-Prop Syndicate

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    First published in 1927 — 13 editions
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Born 1 June 1879
Died 11 April 1957

Subjects

Fiction, Joseph French (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Fiction, crime, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Police in fiction, England, fiction, English Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, thrillers, crime, Great britain, fiction, Murder, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, general, Fiction in English, Golden Age mystery, Meurtre, Murderers, Roman policier anglais, Romans, nouvelles, Anthology, Aymara Indians, Aymará, Biblical Sources

Places

Great Britain, England, Australia, 221B Baker Street, Abbey Grange, Ballarat, Birmingham, Birmingham (England), Birminghan, Boscombe Pool, Boscombe Valley, Bristol, Chislehurst, Hatherley Farm, Herefordshire, New York, Scotland Yard, Surrey (England), Victoria, Yorkshire (England)

People

Joseph French (Fictitious character), John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Alice Turner, Ballarat Gang, Charles McCarthy, Eustace Brackenstall, Inspector Lestrade, Jack Croker, James McCarthy, Jesus Christ, John Turner, Lady Brackenstall, Patience Moran, Stanley Hopkins

Time

1920s, 1930s, 19th century, Early 1950s

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Alternative names

  • Freeman Wills CROFTS
  • FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS
  • Wills Freeman Croft
  • Freemans Wills Croft
  • Freeman Crofts Wills
  • F. Crofts
  • Freeman CROFTS
  • Freeman Crofts
  • Freeman Willis Crofts
  • WILLS CROFTS Freeman
  • Freeman Wills 1879-1957 Crofts
  • Freeman Wills Croft
  • Freeman Croft
  • Freemann Wills Crofts

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