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Leopold Gorman studied the World Economic Conference with interest – and then picked five rich and powerful men to bring his plan to fruition. If any one of them had shown reluctance to fall in with his scheme, he would be dead within an hour…. By the end of 1935, Gorman anticipated complete success. The only man who was causing him any anxiety was Gordon Craigie, Chief of British Intelligence, but the way to reduce the risk, Gorman told himself, was to kill Craigie’s agents, the men of Department Z. It was about this time, too, that Craigie himself decided that Gorman needed watching. And Gorman resolved that Tony Beresford, assigned by Craigie to follow him, should be next to “disappear”.
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AKA Gordon Ashe, M E Cooke, Norman Deane, Robert Caine Frazer, Patrick Gill, Michael Halliday, Charles Hogarth, Brian Hope, Colin Hughes, Kyle Hunt, Margaret Lisle, Abel Mann, Peter Manton, J.J. Marric, Richard Martin, Rodney Mattheson, Anthony Morton, Jeremy York, Henry St. John Cooper and Margaret Cooke. John Creasey (September 17, 1908 - June 9, 1973) was born in Southfields, Surrey, England and died in New Hall, Bodenham, Salisbury Wiltshire, England. He was the seventh of nine children in a working class home. He became an English author of crime thrillers, published in excess of 600 books under 20+ different pseudonyms. He invented many famous characters who would appear in a whole series of novels. Probably the most famous of these is Gideon of Scotland Yard, the basis for the television program Gideon's Way but others include Department Z, Dr. Palfrey, The Toff, Inspector Roger West, and The Baron (which was also made into a television series). In 1962, Creasey won an Edgar Award for Best Novel, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Gideon's Fire, written under the pen name J. J. Marric. And in 1969 he was given the MWA's highest honor, the Grand Master Award.
