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Crofts, Freeman Wills
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young. Because his mother then married an archdeacon, Croft was brought up in a deeply religious home. He studied engineering, and at the age of seventeen he became an apprentice at the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway where he stayed until 1929 when he left for health...
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Lathen, Emma
Emma Lathen is the pseudonym that two American friends, the economist Mary Jane Latsis (1927–1997) and the financial lawyer Martha Henisssart (1929–), used when they published their co-authored crime fiction. Latsis and Henissart also published a number of crime novels as R.B. Dominic.
Latsis, who came from a Greek background, was born in Old Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. She read eco...