| LC control no. | n 80057230 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6005.R517 |
| Personal name heading | Creasey, John |
| Variant(s) | Cooke, M. E. Hope, Brian, 1908-1973 Hughes, Colin, 1908-1973 Marsden, James Matheson, Rodney St. John, Henry, 1908-1973 Wilde, Jimmy קריזי, ג'ון |
| See also | For works of this author written under other names, search also under Ashe, Gordon, 1908-1973; Cooper, Henry St. John, 1908-1973; Deane, Norman, 1908-1973; Frazer, Robert Caine, 1908-1973; Halliday, Michael, 1908-1973; Hunt, Kyle, 1908-1973; Mann, Abel, 1908-1973; Manton, Peter, 1908-1973; Martin, Richard, 1908-1973; Morton, Anthony, 1908-1973; Reilly, William K., 1908-1973; Riley, Tex, 1908-1973; York, Jeremy, 1908-1973; Cooke, Margaret, 1908-1973; Credo,1908-1973; Fécamps, Elise,1908-1973; Gill, Patrick,1908-1973; Ranger, Ken,1908-1973. For works of this author written in collaboration with Ian Bowen, search also under Hogarth, Charles. For works of this author written under the shared pseudonym J.J. Marric, search also under Marric, J. J. Credo, 1908-1973 Fécamps, Elise, 1908-1973 Gill, Patrick, 1908-1973 Ranger, Ken, 1908-1973 Cooke, Margaret, 1908-1973 Ashe, Gordon, 1908-1973 Cooper, Henry St. John, 1908-1973 Deane, Norman, 1908-1973 Frazer, Robert Caine, 1908-1973 Halliday, Michael, 1908-1973 Hunt, Kyle, 1908-1973 Mann, Abel, 1908-1973 Manton, Peter, 1908-1973 Martin, Richard, 1908-1973 Morton, Anthony, 1908-1973 Reilly, William K., 1908-1973 Riley, Tex, 1908-1973 York, Jeremy, 1908-1973 Hogarth, Charles Marric, J. J. |
| Birth date | 1908-09-17 |
| Death date | 1973-06-09 |
| Place of birth | Southfields (London, England) |
| Place of death | Salisbury (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Authors |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. Pseudonyms not found on published works: Cooke, M. E.; Hope, Brian; Hughes, Colin; Marsden, James; Matheson, Rodney; St. John, Henry; Wilde, Jimmy |
| Found in | His First came a murder, 1935? The drought, c1959: t.p. (John Creasey) 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) Literature Resource Centre www site, 19 July 2007: John Creasey page (founder of All Party Alliance Movement, 1967) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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