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Sir Basil Riordan, mysterious, frightening, an immensely wealthy man. Was he also a killer? As head of England's elite secret service, "Z" Department, Gordon Craigie had to find out. It wasn't an easy investigation. Too many important people were involved. A member of an exclusive London Club was poisoned. Could Riordan or his son, Marcus, be involved? It looked that way. So Craigie assigned his best agent, Devenish, to the case. What Devenish, found was no clear-cut case of homicide. Instead it was a mad masquerade of murder, larceny, and deceit of the highest order and send Craig himself was in over his head.
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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.
