福里曼·威利斯·克勞夫茲

福里曼·威利斯·克勞夫茲（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》，同年謀殺天后阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂推出《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 (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

## 基本資料

- 出生日期：1879年6月1日
- 出生地：愛爾蘭都柏林
- 逝世日期：1957年4月11日
- 逝世地：英國西薩塞克斯郡沃辛
- 職業：土木工程師、小說家
- 類型：推理小說
- 代表作：《桶子》