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19 June 2024
John Creasey’s Writing
John Creasey’s writing is prolific by anyone’s standards: his prodigious output roughly calculates to writing an average of a book...
Read MoreWhere To Start Reading John Creasey
Fiction maestro John Creasey was and remains an enigma. He was one of the biggest selling and most prolific crime...
READ MOREThe John Creasey Collection
The Young Gallery, situated on the first floor of Salisbury Library in Salisbury, holds a collection of 2,637 objects relating...
READ MOREThemes of John Creasey’s Books
There are many recurring themes and features in John Creasey’s novels, such as Gentleman Detectives, Espionage, Gothic Mysteries, and Science...
READ MOREThe Toff: Two BBC Radio 4 classic thrillers
Terence Alexander stars in these two classic crime dramas, adapted from the novels of John Creasey. Meet The Honourable Richard...
READ MOREInterview Series with Richard Creasey
Everyone knows that John Creasey is one of the great kings of the crime novel, but did you know that...
READ MORECreasey’s Characters: The Toff
The Toff appears in 57 Creasey titles. The Toff is the Honorable Richard Rollison, an upper-class sleuth and caricature “toff”...
READ MORECreasey’s Characters: The Baron
At Christmas 1935, John Creasey was out of work and so was working as a temporary postman. After Christmas dinner...
READ MORECreasey’s Characters: Inspector Roger West
Inspector Roger West is a handsome family man detective and appears in a police procedural series with 43 titles. A...
READ MORECreasey’s Characters: Dr Palfrey
Dr Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey is a renowned physician, specialising in tuberculosis, who is lured into an elite espionage world via...
READ MORECreasey’s Characters: George Gideon of Scotland Yard
George Gideon Of Scotland Yard appears in 26 police procedurals. Written by Creasey under the pseudonym J.J. Marric, Gideon is...
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