Freeman Wills Crofts
18 books, mostly mystery, for HarperCollins and SNR Audio, 2016–2026
Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957) was an Irish railway engineer who became a leading writer of Golden Age detective fiction. He began writing during an illness, and his first novel, The Cask (1920), established his reputation. Best known for the methodical Scotland Yard investigator Inspector Joseph French, Crofts wrote dozens of crime novels and short stories noted for intricate plots, realistic police work, railway settings, and carefully constructed alibis.
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Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Will Crofts
November 19, 2026
The Detective Novels Collection: 8 Novels and Stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Josephine Tey, & More
Arthur Conan Doyle, A. A. Milne, Freeman Wills Crofts, Josephine Tey, Edgar Allen Poe
October 24, 2024
The Cask
Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Will Crofts
October 3, 2024
Inspector French’s Greatest Case
Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Will Crofts
May 3, 2023
The Groote Park Murder
Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Will Crofts
May 2, 2019
Mystery in the Channel
Freeman Wills Crofts
March 1, 2017
Inspector French’s Greatest Case
Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Will Crofts
November 17, 2016
The 12.30 from Croydon
Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Will Crofts
November 8, 2016
The Ponson Case
Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Will Crofts
January 28, 2016
The Pit-Prop Syndicate
Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Will Crofts
Inspector French and the Sea Mystery
Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Will Crofts
The Hog's Back Mystery
Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Will Crofts
Inspector French and the Box Office Murders
Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Will Crofts
Antidote to Venom
Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Will Crofts
Classic Railway Murders
Maurice Leblanc, Baroness Orczy, Freeman Wills Crofts
The Cask
Freeman Wills Crofts, Freeman Will Crofts
The Detective Novels Collection: 13 Novels and Stories from Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey, & More
Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, A. A. Milne, Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, Josephine Tey, Edgar Allen Poe
The Classic Crime Collection: 15+ Novels and Stories from Dorothy L. Sayers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Wilkie Collins, Josephine Tey, & More
Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, Josephine Tey, Earl Derr Biggers, Robert L Stevenson
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