Quick Facts
- Born:
- June 1879, Dublin
- Died:
- April 11, 1957, Worthing, Sussex, Eng. (aged 77)
- Notable Works:
- “The Cask”
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Freeman Wills Crofts
British writer
Freeman Wills Crofts (born June 1879, Dublin—died April 11, 1957, Worthing, Sussex, Eng.) was an internationally popular Irish author of detective novels whose tight plots and exact and scrupulous attention to detail set new standards in detective-fiction plotting.
Educated in Belfast, Crofts was a railroad engineer in Northern Ireland (1899–1929). During a long convalescence he wrote his first novel, The Cask (1920). Considered a classic of the detective genre, it was followed by more than 30 detective novels, most of which featured Inspector French of Scotland Yard.
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