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》，同年謀殺天后阿加莎・克里絲蒂推出《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]

## 外部連結

* 福里曼・威利斯・克勞夫茲作品的電子書格式 - 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
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