john creasey
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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.
Books
The Terror
The long search
At the request of his gravely ill grandmother, twelve-year-old Ion Radu sets out to find his parents who had been taken as political prisoners years before, and he is caught up in the 1989 revolution in Romania.
As Merry As Hell
Dr. Emmanuel Cellini must solve the murder of Lionel Wilberforce, and the attempted murder of two women. To do so, he needs to discover whether the devil really is at large in the alternative-lifestyle community of Merryfield, and to contend with the hostility of the local police superintendent.