# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/freeman-wills-crofts
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:32:39.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/freeman-wills-crofts"
name: "Freeman Wills Crofts"
slug: "freeman-wills-crofts"
description: "Freeman Wills Crofts FRSA was an Irish engineer and mystery author, remembered best for his Inspector French novels, starting with Inspector French's Greatest Case (1924)."
tagline: "Irish mystery author (1879–1957)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Freemanwillscroft.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1879-06-01"
deathDate: "1957-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.479347271800102
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump