Freeman Wills Crofts
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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.
Freeman Wills Crofts
The Cask
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The Cask is a 1920 detective novel by the Irish-born writer Freeman Wills Crofts. His debut novel, it is considered his masterpiece. Long after the author's reputation had declined, this book was stil
Freeman Wills Crofts
…an inquiry into the Bann and Lough Neagh Drainage Scheme. In 1919, during an absence from work due to a long illness, Crofts 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…
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