Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957)
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Inspektor Frenchs schwierigster Fall : ein klassischer Kriminalroman aus dem Jahre 1925 (1924) 182 Exemplare
British Library Crime Classics Collection 10 Books Bundle (Death of a Busybody,Mystery in the Channel,The Methods of… (2016) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
British Library Crime Classics Collection 6 Books Bundle (Antidote to Venom,The Cornish Coast Murder,Resorting to… (2017) 2 Exemplare
Antidote to Venom (British Library Crime Classics) by Freeman Wills Crofts (2-Apr-2015) Paperback 2 Exemplare
The Freeman Wills Crofts Omnibus: The Cask, The Groote Park Murder, The Pit-Prop Syndicate, The Ponson Case (2020) 2 Exemplare
British Library Crime Classics 12 Books Collection - Series 5 and 6 (2015) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
El enemigo invisible 1 Exemplar
The poison case 1 Exemplar
Juvelkuppen 1 Exemplar
Young Robin Brand Detective 1 Exemplar
The Gorse Hall Mystery [Short story] 1 Exemplar
3x inspektor French 1 Exemplar
Mord i mörker 1 Exemplar
Vem var det? 1 Exemplar
Diamantrovet 1 Exemplar
Ztracená hra 1 Exemplar
London Murder Mysteries - Boxed Set: The Cask, The Ponson Case & The Pit-Prop Syndicate (2020) 1 Exemplar
East Wind [short story] 1 Exemplar
Mr. Pemberton's Commission [short story] 1 Exemplar
il morto del taxi 1 Exemplar
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Doppelter Tod. Ein klassischer Kriminalroman aus dem Jahre 1939. (1939) — Mitwirkender — 28 Exemplare
Modern detective Stories : By Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, MacKinlay Kantor, Freeman W. Crofts, Cyril Hare. (1996) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Detektivhistorier fra Sherlock Holmes til Hercule Poirot — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
The Case of the Drowning Duck | Fear Comes to Chalfont | Mystery in the Woodshed — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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- Geburtstag
- 1879-06-01
- Todestag
- 1957-04-11
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- Dublin, Irland
- Sterbeort
- Worthing, Sussex, England
- Wohnorte
- Blackheath, Guildford, Surrey, UK
- Ausbildung
- Methodist College, Belfast
Campbell College, Belfast - Berufe
- railway engineer
writer - Organisationen
- The Detection Club
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1939)
- Kurzbiographie
- Freeman Wills Crofts, the ‘King of Detective Story Writers’, was one of the pre-eminent writers in the golden age of British crime fiction. Acclaimed by his contemporaries, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, he wrote more than 30 detective novels and was a founder member of the hugely influential DETECTIVE CLUB. Crofts’s most famous creation was Scotland Yard detective, Inspector French (‘As near the real thing as any sleuth in fiction’ THE SUNDAY TIMES).
Born in Dublin, Crofts became an engineer and wrote his debut novel, THE CASK: A DETECTIVE STORY (‘An imaginatively ingenious mystery’ THE EVENING STANDARD) in 1919 during a long absence from work due to illness. He became a full-time writer in 1929 and moved to England with his wife Mary to live in Guildford. He died in 1957.
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It's a plot driven story in the English countryside. The characters do not get developed but the complexity of the plot makes up for that.
Good reading for fans of traditional English detective stories.