福里曼·威利斯·克勞夫茲

福里曼·威利斯·克勞夫茲（英語：Freeman Wills Crofts，1879年6月1日—1957年4月11日）是愛爾蘭的一名推理作家，他於1920年推出的《桶子》，同年謀殺天后阿加莎·克里斯蒂推出《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。 福里曼·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。 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] 福里曼·威利斯·克勞夫茲作品的电子书格式 - Standard Ebooks（英语：Standard Ebooks） Freeman Wills Crofts的作品 - 古騰堡計劃 來自福里曼·威利斯·克勞夫茲的LibriVox公共領域有聲讀物 Freeman Wills Crofts - 古滕堡分布式校对（加拿大） 互联网档案馆中福里曼·威利斯·克勞夫茲的作品或与之相关的作品