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.
Series
Books
Introducing the Toff
1938
First Came A Murder
1934
Doorway to Death
1957
Two for Inspector West
1955
The Theft of Magna Carta
1973
Death of a Postman
1956
A Part for a Policeman
1970
The Plague of Silence
1948
The Toff At The Fair
1954
Death of a Racehorse
1959
A Sharp Rise in Crime
1978
Menace
1938
Give a Man a Gun
1953
The Case of the Innocent Victims
1959
A Six for the Toff
1955
A Splinter of Glass
1972
Go Away to Murder
1943
The Touch of Death
1954
Send Superintendent West
1953
Murder on the Line
1960
The Toff on Fire
1957
Redhead
1933
The House of the Bears
1946
The Toff and the Fallen Angels
1970
The Department of Death
1949
The Toff and the Runaway Bride
1959
Triumph for Inspector West
1948
The Executioners
1973
Inspector West at Home
1957
The Toff and the Curate
1944
Vote for the Toff
1971
The Toff and the Kidnapped Child
1960
Inspector West Cries Wolf
1950
The Black Spiders
1957
Help from the Baron
1955
The Toff and the Terrified Taxman
1972
The Toff and the Stolen Tresses
1958
The Figure in the Dusk
1951
Alibi
1971
The Toff Steps Out
1939
The Blind Spot
1952
The Gelignite Gang
1955
Murder, London-South Africa
1966
Death Round the Corner
1935
Policeman's Dread
1962
Inspector West Takes Charge
1942
Inspector West Regrets
1945
The Beauty Queen Killer
1954
Double for the Toff
1959
So Young to Burn
1967
The Baron and the Missing Old Masters
1968
Versus the Baron
1940
Follow the Toff
1961
Inspector West Alone
1950
The Toff and the Great Illusion
1944
The Masters of Bow Street
1972
The Scene of the Crime
1961
Hit and Run
1957
The Baron Returns
1937
The Toff Goes to Market
1942
Battle for Inspector West
1948
The Toff on the Farm
1958
The Depths
1963
The Dissemblers
1951
Hang the Little Man
1963
The Terror Trap
1936
Stars for the Toff
1967
The Toff in New York
1956
The Blight
1968
Death in Cold Print
1961
Sabotage
1941
The Death Miser
1933
A Doll for the Toff
1963
Murder, London-Miami
1969
Murder, London-Australia
1965
Murder by the Book
Mysteries for Bibliophiles
2021
The Toff and the Golden Boy
1969
Holiday for Inspector West
1946
Call the Toff
1953
Strike for Death
1958
The Toff and Old Harry
1949
Here Comes the Toff
1940
Inspector West Kicks Off
1949
Look Three Ways at Murder
1964
The Drought
1959
