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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.
In the series of adventure novels by John Creasey, the Toff is the nickname of the Honourable Richard Rollison, an upper-class crime sleuth. [1] Creasey published almost 60 Toff adventures, beginning with Introducing the Toff in 1938 and continuing through The Toff and the Crooked Copper, published in 1977, four years after the author's death.
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In 2003, former Force Recon Marine and CIA SAD/SOG officer John Creasy travels to Mexico to visit his old friend Paul Rayburn, who convinces him to take a bodyguard position with Samuel Ramos, a wealthy automaker. Samuel needs protection for his young daughter, Lupita "Pita" Ramos, due to a kidnapping insurance policy that requires a bodyguard ...
In 1977, BBC Radio broadcast an adaptation of the novel in six parts, with Terence Alexander as The Toff. The serial has been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7.It was broadcast again on R4 extra in June 2012, December 2013, June 2020, January 2022, and February 2024.
Sexton Blake is a fictional character, a detective who has been featured in many British comic strips, novels and dramatic productions since 1893. [1] Sexton Blake adventures were featured in a wide variety of British and international publications (in many languages) from 1893 to 1978, comprising more than 4,000 stories by some 200 different authors.
Gideon's Wrath is the thirteenth in a series of police procedural novels by John Creasey writing as J.J. Marric. Published in 1967, it centres on Commander George Gideon of the C.I.D. , Scotland Yard .
Pages in category "John Creasey characters" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. The Baron (TV ...