John Creasey

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John Creasey MBE
Born	17 September 1908 Southfields, London Borough of Wandsworth, England
Died	9 June 1973(1973-06-09) (aged 64) Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Pen name	Gordon Ashe Margaret Cooke (M.E. Cooke) Henry St. John Cooper Credo Norman Deane Elise Fecamps Robert Caine Frazer Patrick Gill Michael Halliday Charles Hogarth Brian Hope Colin Hughes Kyle Hunt Abel Mann Peter Manton J.J. Marric James Marsden Richard Martin Rodney Mattheson Anthony Morton Ken Ranger William K. Reilly Martin Richard Tex Riley Henry St. John Jimmy Wilde Jeremy York
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	English
Genre	Crime fiction, Science fiction, Westerns, Romantic novels
Notable works	The Toff series George Gideon series (as J.J. Marric) Inspector Roger West series The Baron series (as Anthony Morton) Doctor Emmanuel Cellini series Dr. Palfrey series

John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973)^[1] was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns. He 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.^[2]