John Creasey

John Creasey (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns. He 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. Biography and bibliography at Creasey copyright holder Owatonna Media (owatonnamedia.co.uk)

"John Creasey – Ten Authors in One" at The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition (h2g2.com)

The John Creasey Online Resource Archived 14 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine (johncreasey.co.uk) – fan site

Works by or about John Creasey at Internet Archive

Works by John Creasey at Open Library

John Creasey at Library of Congress, with 212 library catalogue records of works catalogued under his own name and several pseudonyms, and links to many othersAs of October 2018, the Library of Congress assigns LCCN to, or identifies, about 20 pseudonyms, and evidently catalogues some works under about 10 of them.