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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 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.
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George Gideon of Scotland Yard, fictional policeman created by John Creasey under the pen name J. J. Marric; Gideon's Day, J. J. Marric's 1955 novel, reprinted as Gideon of Scotland Yard in 1958; Gideon's Day, originally released as Gideon of Scotland Yard, 1958 film starring Jack Hawkins as George Gideon
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
Creasy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), English historian; George Creasy (1895–1972), Royal Navy officer; Gerald Creasy (1897–1983), British colonial administrator; Kenneth Creasy (1932–1992), American politician; Robert Creasy (1939–2005), American computer scientist