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Follett, Ken
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- born in Wales, made his home in England and New York. 'Achieved instant fame' with Eye of the Needle, (1978). He was a reporter before he started to write novels.
Citations:
1. 'Why Women Don't Write Spy Novels,' by Ken Follett, Murderess Ink, edited by Dilys Winn, Workman Press, 1979.
2. 'The Spy as Hero and Villain,' by Ken Follet, The Murder Mystique, edited by Lucy Freeman. Frederick Ulgar Publishing, 1982.
3. The Official Ken Follett Website.
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Ford, Leslie
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- Pseudonym of Zenith Jones Brown (as is David Frome.) As Ford, she wrote about the adventures of Grace Latham, a ''nice'' woman, and Colonel Primrose. As Frome, she wrote about zMr. Pinkerton, a rabbity little Welshman, and his friend, Inspector Bull of Scotland Yard.
Citations:
1. 'An Interview With Leslie Ford,' by Ann Waldron, The Armchair Detective magazine, Volume 4, Number 1, October 1970, page 33-36.
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Fowles, John
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- Author of The Ebony Tower, and The French Liuetenant's Woman.
Citations:
1. 'Threats to Rationalism: John Fowles, Stanislaw Lem, and the Detective Story,' The Armchair Detective magazine, Volume 13, Winter 1980, Number 1, page 4-7.
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Francis, Dick
(British author)
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- Richard Stanley 'Dick' Francis was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales on October 31, 1920. He became a champion steeplechase jockey before injury forced him to retire. He became a race reporter and then turned to writing novels, each with a horse-racing theme of some kind.
Citations:
1. 'Dick Francis: The Worth of Human Love,' by Michael N. Stanton, The Armchair Detective, Volume 15, Number 2, pg. 137.
2. The Craft of Crime: Conversations with Crime Writers,' by John C. Carr, 1983, Houghton Mifflin. Complete chapter interview.
3. The Unofficial Dick Francis Website.
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Freeman, Lucy
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- This author has written both fiction and non-fiction suspense. Her novel The Dream was adapted for the stage, and her non-fiction book Betrayal (1976) appeared as a two-hour tv movie.
Citations:
1. ''Before I Kill More,'',' by Lucy Freeman, I, Witness: Personal Encounters With Crime by Members of the Mystery Writers of America, edited by Brian Garfield, NYT Times Books, 1978.
2. 'The Whydunit Emerges, Thanks To Freud,' by Lucy Freeman, The Murder Mystique, edited by Lucy Freeman. Frederick Ulgar Publishing, 1982.
This book is available from the CAIRO LIBRARY, and from www.abe.com.
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Freeman, R[ichard] Austin
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- Creator of the character, John Thorndyke, Scientific Detective. His stories were written around the same time as Sherlock Holmes - the character is not as lovable but the science is more exact.
Web Citations:
1. Dr. Thorndyke's Home Page.
2. The Realists School of Detective Fiction
3. Borowitz Crime Manuscripts: Richard Austin Freeman Correspondence: 1920-1941. A collection at Kent State University.
Citations:
1. 'R. Austin Freeman,' by Norm Donaldson, The Armchair Detective, volume 1, Number 2, January 1968, pg. 32-37.
2. Encylopedia of Mystery and Detection, Steinbrunner and Penzler, McGraw Hill, 1976.
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Fremlin, Celia
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- Wrote The Hours Before Dawn.
Citations:
1. 'Vigil in Mayfair: A Tale Unfolds Over Cucumber Sandwiches,' (brief comments on the mystery by H.R.F. Keating, Julian Symons, Celia Fremlin, Peter Dickinson and Avon Curry), Murderess Ink, edited by Dilys Winn, Workman Publishing, 1979.
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