Freeman Wills Crofts has written at least 24 books. Their most popular book is The Floating Admiral with 9 saves with an average rating of 4⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Fiction, Classics, and Mystery.
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, the son of a deceased Army Medical Service surgeon-lieutenant. His mother re-married Jonathan Harding, the Vicar of Gilford, and Crofts spent his childhood in the Gilford vicarage. He attended Methodist College and Campbell College in Belfast. At age eighteen, he was apprenticed to his uncle, Berkeley Deane Wise, who was chief engineer of the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway. He eventually became Chief Assistant Engineer at the Railway.
In 1919, during an illness-induced absence from work, he 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 years, in addition to a number of short stories and plays.
1931 • 9 Readers • 320 pages • 4
1920 • 7 Readers • 319 pages • 3.7
1937 • 3 Readers • 218 pages • 3.3
2022 • 2 Readers • 227 pages
2021 • 2 Readers • 290 pages
1922 • 2 Readers • 266 pages
2018 • 2 Readers
2021 • 1 Reader • 221 pages
2011 • 1 Reader • 728 pages
1 Reader
1 Reader
2011 • 1 Reader • 242 pages
2022 • 1 Reader • 325 pages
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1926 • 1 Reader
2000 • 1 Reader • 324 pages
1922 • 1 Reader
1923 • 1 Reader
2021 • 233 pages
2000 • 308 pages
1988 • 348 pages