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Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957)

Autor de The Hog's Back Mystery

63+ Obras 2,687 Miembros 70 Reseñas 5 Preferidas

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Obras de Freeman Wills Crofts

The Hog's Back Mystery (1933) 253 copias
The Cask (1920) 214 copias
Mystery In The Channel (1931) 205 copias
The 12.30 from Croydon (1934) 204 copias
Antidote to Venom (1938) 165 copias
The Pit-Prop Syndicate (1922) 135 copias
The Sea Mystery (1928) 96 copias
The Groote Park Murder (1923) 81 copias
Crimen en Guildford (1935) 79 copias
The Loss of the Jane Vosper (1936) 78 copias
Fatal Venture (1939) — Autor — 70 copias
Golden Ashes (1940) 67 copias
The Box Office Murders (1929) 64 copias
The Ponson Case (1921) 62 copias
Death of a Train (1946) 61 copias
Sudden Death (1932) 42 copias
Death on the Way (1932) 34 copias
Man Overboard! (1936) 31 copias
The End of Andrew Harrison (1938) 30 copias
Silence for the Murderer (1949) 22 copias
The Losing Game (1941) 21 copias
Enemy Unseen (1945) 20 copias
Found Floating (1937) 19 copias
Fear Comes to Chalfont (1942) 17 copias
Murderers Make Mistakes (1947) 14 copias
French Strikes Oil (1951) 14 copias
Anything to Declare? (1882) 14 copias
Four Great Mystery Novels (1948) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
James Tarrant, Adventurer (1941) 11 copias
Many a Slip (1843) 5 copias
Detectives at Work. Five Short Stories (1997) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Der geheimnisvolle Brief (1985) 2 copias
The Hunt Ball Murder (1944) 2 copias
Juvelkuppen 1 copia
Vem var det? 1 copia
Diamantrovet 1 copia
Ztracená hra 1 copia

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The Scoop & Behind the Screen (1930) — Contribuidor — 210 copias
Blood on the Tracks (2018) — Contribuidor — 178 copias
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Bodies from the Library (2018) — Contribuidor — 119 copias
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The Long Arm of the Law (2017) — Contribuidor — 83 copias
The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 80 copias
The Measure of Malice: Scientific Mysteries (2019) — Contribuidor — 80 copias
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The Third Omnibus of Crime (1935) — Contribuidor — 44 copias
The Best Crime Stories Ever Told (2012) — Contribuidor — 34 copias
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Double Death: An Exercise in Detection (1939) — Contribuidor — 28 copias
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Masters of Mystery: A Study of the Detective Story (1931) — Contribuidor — 24 copias
The Pocket Book of Great Detectives (1941) — Contribuidor — 22 copias
Great Tales of Detection (1936) — Contribuidor — 21 copias
A Century of Detective Stories (1935) — Contribuidor — 20 copias
The World's Best One Hundred Detective Stories, Volume 3 (1929) — Contribuidor — 18 copias
Fifty Masterpieces of Mystery (1937) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
My Best Detective Story (1931) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
Evening Standard Detective Book: Second Series (1951) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
Detection Medley (1939) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
Murder for the Millions (1946) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
The Realm of the Impossible (2017) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
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Modern Detective Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Evening Standard Detective Book (1950) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Verdens største detektiver II (1995) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Verdens største detektiver I (1995) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Great Unsolved Crimes (1975) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Best Stories of the Underworld (1942) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Best Railway Stories (1969) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
The Golden Book of the Year (1950) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Great Stories of Detection (1960) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
De ¤bedste kriminalhistorier fra hele verden — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Horror and Homicide (1949) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Sixteen On: An Anthology of Railway Stories — Contribuidor — 1 copia

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Fecha de nacimiento
1879-06-01
Fecha de fallecimiento
1957-04-11
Género
male
Nacionalidad
UK
Lugar de nacimiento
Dublin, Ireland
Lugar de fallecimiento
Worthing, Sussex, England
Lugares de residencia
Blackheath, Guildford, Surrey, UK
Educación
Methodist College, Belfast
Campbell College, Belfast
Ocupaciones
railway engineer
writer
Organizaciones
The Detection Club
Premios y honores
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1939)
Biografía breve
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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Collection as part of a Publishers Series? en Librarything Series (octubre 2021)

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A complicated murder plot takes Inspector French on a frustrating investigation. It shows his determination to solve the case.
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.
½
 
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BrianEWilliams | 2 reseñas más. | Mar 27, 2024 |
Anne Day has recently lost her father and as he was a Vicar she has lost her home, now she has a chance at being a housekeeper for the Grinsmead famlily in their house Frayle (back when people had multiple servants, including a maid, a cook and a governess). Mrs Grinsmede is somewhat paranoid and convince that someone wants to kill her, which proves prophetic. The first of the locked room deaths; her's could be construed as suicide but Anne has her doubts. When Mr Grinsmede turns up dead in his room, again a locked room mystery it also looks like suicide but something is off to both Anne and when Inspector French becomes involved in the mystery, he's also not sure but he feels a need to ferret out the truth.
Interesting to see how the twists and turns resolve.
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½
 
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wyvernfriend | Feb 3, 2024 |
Set inter-war. Maxwell Cheyne served in the navy and was invalided out after a uboat incident and now he's settled to a life of writing and puttering about on his motorbike (i really did have to smile at the idea of speeding along at 35 miles per hour!) but it did give him a feel of an inter-war intrepid hero. For all that he had military training he is terribly naïve and keeps falling for schemes and being rendered unconscious. And trusting the completely wrong people, most of the time, and occasionally the right people. There is a romance in the story and it's the usual interwar glances and subsumed passion until it isn't.
Inspector French doesn't enter the picture until about half-way through, when thing get less dangerous for Cheyne and his love interest and fellow detective Joan Merril (who saves him at one stage) and the mystery unravells. There is some travel on the continent but overall it's an entertaining story of one man and his adventures in not getting killed because he might know something.
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wyvernfriend | otra reseña | Jan 5, 2024 |
Pretty good book. Nothing super exciting but it messes with the traditional format in a neat way while still having a satisfying and interesting actual mystery.

It's set up sort of like a "reverse whodunnit" but even stronger - it takes a long time for you to find out who's going to get murdered with multiple false hints as to who the victim will be and things only really get going like... halfwayish through? It works well, things get set up nicely and the build-up is well done. His character writing is hardly Nobel Literature level but the characters make sense and you get a good idea of their distinct personality and motives - they're more than flat stereotypes. The mystery itself is built around a single conceit but it's pretty ingenious and I liked it

MASSIVE ending spoiler

The very ending is hilarious in a very grim way. The main character is redeemed by confessing to being an accessory to murder, and so he's going to be hanged. But it's ok cause he's come right with God! Incredible. I love it
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tombomp | 2 reseñas más. | Oct 31, 2023 |

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Reseñas
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