Austin Freeman was born on April 11, 1862 in London, England, UK. Austin was a writer, known for The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971), Thorndyke (1964) and Detective (1964). Austin was married to Annie Elizabeth Edwards. Austin died on September 28, 1943 in Gravesend, Kent, England, UK.
Widely credited with inventing the "inverted detective story", a narrative structure in which the commission of a crime is shown or described at the beginning of the story.