福里曼·威利斯·克勞夫茲

**福里曼·威利斯·克勞夫茲**（，）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。

## 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 (magazine)|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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