John Creasey

JOHN CREASEY MBE d1973. English crime, science fiction, romance and western novel writer who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. He created several characters who are now famous including ; as The Toff (The Honourable Richard Rollison) / Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard / Inspector Roger Wes / The Baron (John Mannering) / Doctor Emmanuel Cellini and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. The most popular of these was Gideon of Scotland Yard who became 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. He died in Wiltshire aged 64 on June 9th 1973