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Freeman Wills Crofts

Male : Novelist and Crime Novelist. Creator of Inspector French of Scotland Yard, a diligent, plodding solver of crimes. Married Mary Canning in 1912
Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : Dublin

Date of Birth : 1879 Date of Death : 1957 Age : 78

Other Work : Railway Engineer in Ulster

Education : Methodist & Campbell Colleges, Belfast
1920-1930
The Cask
(1920 Collins) (1924 Seltzer NY)
The Ponson Case
(1921 Collins) (1927 Boni)
The Pit-Prop Syndicate
(1922 Collins) (1925 Seltzer)
The Groote Park Murder
(1923 Collins) (1925 Seltzer)
Inspector French's Greatest Case
(1924 Collins) (1925 Seltzer NY)
Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery
(1926 Collins) (1926 Boni as "The Cheyne Mystery")
Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy
(1927 Collins) (1927 Harper as "The Starvel Hollow Tragedy")
The Sea Mystery
(1928 Collins) (1928 Harper NY)
Inspector French's Case Book
(1928 Collins)
Offered in 1999 for £455
The Box Office Murders
(1929 Collins) (1929 Harper as "The Purple Sickle Murders")
Sir John Magill's Last Journey
(1930 Collins Crime Club) (1930 Harper)
Bann and Lough Neagh Drainage
(1930 HMSO, Belfast)

1931-1940
Mystery in the Channel
(1931 Collins Crime Club) (1931 Harper,NY)
The Floating Admiral
(1931 H & S)
Sudden Death
(1932 Collins Crime Club 7/6) (1932 Harper)
Death on the Way
(1932 Collins Crime Club) (1932 Harper as "Double Death")
The Freeman Wills Crofts Omnibus
(1932 Collins)
The Hog's Back Mystery
(1933 Hodder & Stoughton) (1933 Dodd Mead as "The Strange Case of Dr Earle")
The 12.30 from Croydon
(1934 H & S) (1934 Dodd Mead as "Willful and Premeditated")
Mystery on Southampton Water
(1934 H & S) (1934 Dodd Mead as "Crime on the Solent")
Crime at Guildford
(1935 Collins Crime Club) (1935 Dodd Mead as "The Crime at Nornes")
The Loss of the Jane Vosper
(1936 Collins Crime Club) (1936 Dodd Mead)
Man Overboard !
(1936 Collins Crime Club) (1936 Dodd Mead)
Six Against the Yard
(1936 Selwyn & Blount)
Found Floating
(1937 H & S) (1937 Dodd Mead)
The End of Andrew Harrison
(1938 H & S) (1938 Dodd Mead as "Future Alibi")
Antidote to Venom
(1938 H & S) (1939 Dodd Mead)
Double Death
(1939 Gollancz)
Fatal Venture
(1939 H & S) (1939 Dodd Mead as "Tragedy in the Hollow")
Golden Ashes
(1940 H & S) (1940 Dodd Mead)

1941-1950
James Tarrant, Adventurer
(1941 H & S) (1941 Dodd Mead as "Circumstantial Evidence")
The Losing Game
(1941 H & S) (1941 Dodd Mead as "A Losing Game")
Fear Comes to Chalfont
(1942 H & S) (1942 Dodd Mead)
The Affair at Little Wokeham
(1943 H & S) (1943 Dodd Mead as "Double Tragedy")
The Hunt Ball Murder
(1943 Todd) - pamphlet. ss
Mr Sefton, Murderer
(1944 Vallancey Press) - pamphlet. ss
Enemy Unseen
(1945 H & S) (1945 Dodd Mead)
Death of a Train
(1946 H & S) (1947 Dodd Mead)
Young Robin Brand, Detective
(1947 Univ of London Press)
Murderers Make Mistakes
(1947 H & S). ss
Silence for the Murderer
(1949 H & S) (1948 Dodd Mead)
The Four Gospels in One Story
(1949 Longmans)

After 1951
French Strikes Oil
(1952 H & S) (1951 Dodd Mead as "Dark Journey")
Many a Slip
(1955 H & S). ss
The Mystery of the Sleeping Car express
(1956 H & S). ss
Anything to Declare ?
(1957 H & S)
The Scoop
(1983 Gollancz)