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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.
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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.
The author's best-known creation was the character of Marcus Creasy, an American-born former member of the French Foreign Legion. The Creasy novels are cult favorites in Japan. Man on Fire was directly adapted for film twice, in 1987 and 2004. The latter film was adapted into a 2005 Bollywood film. This resulted in a wider demand for Quinnell's ...
Creasey is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Harold Creasey (1883–1952), British sport shooter; Joel Creasey (born 1990), Australian actor and comedian; John Creasey (1908–1973), English crime and science fiction writer
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The CWA New Blood Dagger is an annual award given by the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) for first books by previously unpublished writers. [1] It is given in memory of CWA founder John Creasey and was previously known as the John Creasey Memorial Award. Publisher Chivers Press was the sponsor from the award's introduction in 1973 to 2002.
Man on Fire is a 2004 American vigilante action thriller film directed and produced by Tony Scott, with a screenplay by Brian Helgeland and co-produced by Arnon Milchan. [4] It is based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell.