John Creasey was an English crime and science fiction writer who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.
He created several ongoing characters, such as The Toff (The Honourable Richard Rollison), Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron (John Mannering), Doctor Emmanuel Cellini, and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. Gideon of Scotland Yard was the basis for the television series Gideon's Way and for the John Ford movie Gideon's Day (1958). The Baron character was made into a 1960s TV series starring Steve Forrest as The Baron.
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Fiction, Police, Fiction in English, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Private investigators, Toff (Fictitious character), Roger West (Fictitious character), Antique dealers, Jewel thieves, John Mannering (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, West, roger (fictitious character), fiction, Prevention, Terrorism, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Great britain, fiction, England, fiction, George Gideon (Fictitious character), Toff (fictitious character), fiction, London (england), fiction, Crime, fiction, Large type books, Criminals, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Private investigators, fictionPlaces
Great Britain, England, London (England), London, Australia, New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), South Africa, Boston, East End, East End (London, England), Florida, London Spain, Miami, Miami (Fla.), Scotland Yard, Tewkesbury, USA, especially the East EndPeople
Patrick Dawlish, The Toff, Bristow, Dr. Emmanuel Cellini, Inspector Roger West, John Creasey, John Creasey (1908-1973), Jolly, Lord Gentian, McGee triplets, Richard Rollison, Roger West (fictional character), Scotland Yard, The Baron, alias the Toff (fictional detective)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL397914A
- ISNI: 0000000109234493
- VIAF: 70225892
- Wikidata: Q1699682
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q1699682
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Alternative names
- Abel Mann
- Anthony Morton
- Ashe Gordon
- Brian Hope
- Colin Hughes
- Creasey John
- Creasey
- Deane, Norman
- Elise Fecamps
- Gordon Ashe
- Halliday Michael
- Henry St. John
- Henry St John Cooper
- Henry St. John Cooper
- Hunt Kyle
- James Marsden
- Jeremy York
- Jimmy Wilde
- J.Creasey
- J.J. Marric
- J. J. Marric
- Ken Ranger
- Kyle Hunt
- Margaret Cooke
- Martin Richard
- Michael Halliday
- M. E. Cooke
- Norman Deane
- Patrick Gill
- Peter Manton
- Richard Martin
- Robert Frazer
- Robert Caine Frazer
- Rodney Mattheson
- Tex Riley
- T. Riley
- William K. Reilly
- William K. Riley
- Джон Кризи