Freeman Wills Crofts FRSA was an Irish engineer and mystery author, remembered best for his Inspector French novels, starting with Inspector French's Greatest Case.
The Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Arthur Morrison, Hugh Walpole, John Rhode,
Freeman Wills Crofts
…of John J. C. Canning of Coleraine, Ireland, bank manager. They had no children. He was a member, with Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie, of the Detection Club which met in Gerrard Street. In 1939 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts…
The Detection Club meeting in 1932, when G. K. Chesterton was its President