Creasey, John

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found: Cont. auth. on CD, July 1998(Creasey, John; b. Sept. 17, 1908 in Surrey, England; d. June 9, 1973; prolific author with several pseudonyms, including J.J. Marric)

found: Literature Resource Centre www site, 19 July 2007:John Creasey page (founder of All Party Alliance Movement, 1967)

found: Wikipedia, April 6, 2020(John Creasey; John Creasey MBE (born 17 September 1908 in Southfields, Surrey, England; died 9 June 1973 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England) was an English crime writer, also writing romance and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms; he created several characters who are now famous, 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; the most popular of these was Gideon of Scotland Yard, who was the basis for the television series Gideon's Way and for the John Ford movie Gideon's Day (1958); the Baron character was also made into a 1960s TV series starring Steve Forrest as The Baron; in 1953, John Creasey founded the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) in the UK; John's son Richard Creasey is also an author as well as a distinguished television producer, having served both in the private sector and at the BBC, and as the British producer of Patrick Watson's worldwide Canadian television documentary series The Struggle for Democracy)

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[Pseudonyms not found on published works: Cooke, M. E.; Hope, Brian; Hughes, Colin; Marsden, James; Matheson, Rodney; St. John, Henry; Wilde, Jimmy]