福裡曼·威利斯·克勞夫茲

福裡曼·威利斯·克勞夫茲（Freeman Wills Crofts，）是愛爾蘭的一名推理作家，他於1920年推出的《桶子》，同年謀殺天后-{zh-cn:阿加莎·克里斯蒂; zh-sg:阿加莎·克里斯蒂; zh-tw:阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂; zh-hk:阿嘉莎·姬絲蒂;}-推出《史岱爾莊謀殺案》，兩人因此被稱為推理小說黃金時期的推手。

**生平簡介**
福裡曼·威利斯·克勞夫茲出生於愛爾蘭的一個小農場，父親是隨軍的外科醫生，在克勞夫茲出世前就已經逝世，母親後來與一位牧師再婚。克勞夫茲17歲開始接觸鐵路工程，1900年成為了地區的工程師，克勞夫茲的工程師身分一直至1929年。克勞夫茲的寫作生涯始於1919年，他因為大病被逼放下鐵路工程的工作，這段時期寫了他的第一本小說，他於1920年發表了《桶子》，《桶子》出版後旋即獲得空前暢銷，此後幾乎每年克勞夫茲都寫一本小說，另加一些短篇小說和戲劇。

**著作**
 The Cask (1920)- The Ponson Case (1921)- The Pit-Prop Syndicate (1922)- The Groote Park Murder (1923)- Inspector French's Greatest Case (1924)- Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery (1926) aka The Cheyne Mystery- Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy (1927) aka The Starvel Hollow Tragedy- The Sea Mystery (1928)- The Box Office Murders (1929) aka The Purple Sickle Murders- Sir John Magill's Last Journey (1930)- Mystery in the Channel (1931) aka Mystery in the English Channel- Sudden Death (1932)- Death on the Way (1932) aka Double Death- The Hog's Back Mystery (1933) aka The Strange Case of Dr. Earle- The 12:30 from Croydon (1934) aka Wilful and Premeditated- Mystery on Southampton Water (1934) aka Crime on the Solent- Crime at Guildford (1935) aka The Crime at Nornes- The Loss of the 'Jane Vosper (1936)- Man Overboard! (1936) aka Cold-Blooded Murder- Found Floating (1937)- The End of Andrew Harrison (1938) aka The Futile Alibi- Antidote to Venom (1938)- Fatal Venture (1939) aka Tragedy in the Hollow- Golden Ashes (1940)- James Tarrant, Adventurer (1941) aka Circumstantial Evidence- The Losing Game (1941) aka A Losing Game- Fear Comes to Chalfont (1942)- The Affair at Little Wokeham (1943) aka Double Tragedy- Enemy Unseen (1945)- Death of a Train (1946)- Silence for the Murderer (1949)- French Strikes Oil (1951) aka Dark Journey- Anything to Declare? (1957)- Murderers Make Mistakes (1947)- Many a Slip (1955)- Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express and Other Stories (1956)
**  "The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express" (1921)
** "Mr Pemberton's Commission"
** "The Greuze" (Inspector French)
** "The Level Crossing" (1933)
** "East Wind" (Inspector French)
** "The Parcel"
** "The Motive Shows the Man"
** "The Affair at Saltover Priory" (Inspector French)
** "The Landing Ticket" (Inspector French)
** "The Raincoat" (Inspector French)- Inspector French- During the Night- The Nine Fifty Up Express
*How to Write a Detective Novel
*The Four Gospels in One Story: written as a modern biography- Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)- Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 3rd Series (1934)- The Mystery Book (1934)- The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)- Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1983)- The Scoop and Behind the Screen (1983) (Originally published in The Listener (1931) and (1930), both written by members of The Detection Club)- Great Irish Detective Stories edited by Peter Haining (1993)- "The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction" (2004)
These stories are known to have been published but no copies of the publications concerned are believed to exist today- "Nemesis", published in Round About Guildford Round Table Christmas Annual, 1933- "Who Killed Cock Robin?", published in St Martin's Review date unknown

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