Frances Crane

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Biography

Frances Kirkwood Crane was an American mystery author, who introduced private investigator Pat Abbott and his future wife Jean in her first novel, 'The Turquoise Shop' (1941). The Abbotts investigated crimes in a total of 26 volumes, each with a colour in the title.She died in an Albuquerque, New Mexico nursing home, where she had spent the previous few months because of ill-health. Her ashes were scattered across her home town of Lawrenceville.

  • Primary profession
  • Novelist
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 27 October 1890
  • Place of birth
  • Lawrenceville· Illinois
  • Death date
  • 1981-11-06
  • Death age
  • 91
  • Place of death
  • Albuquerque· New Mexico
  • Knows language
  • American English

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