John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction...
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comedian John Creasey (1908–1973), English crime and science fiction writer Timothy Creasey (1923–1986), British Army officer Creasy (surname) Creasey v Breachwood...
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CWA New Blood Dagger (redirect from John Creasey Memorial Award)
writers. 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...
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come to virtually define the form, like Hillary Waugh, Ed McBain, and John Creasey started to appear regularly. In 1956, in his regular New York Times Book...
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Scotland Yard in the US) was adapted from the novel by British writer John Creasey. It is Ford's only police genre film, and one of the few Ford films set...
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at the End, and The Forevers. His debut novel, Tall Oaks, won the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award in 2017. We Begin at the End became a New York...
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summer of 1987. The novel won her various awards including the British John Creasey Award, the French Prix du Roman d'Adventure and the American Edgar Award...
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"Death Keeps a Secret" (John Creasey Mystery Magazine, March 1958; reprinted in The Mystery Bedside Book (1960), edited by John Creasey} is a brief account...
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The Toff (category John Creasey characters)
adventure novels by John Creasey, the Toff is the nickname of the Honourable Richard Rollison, an upper-class crime sleuth. Creasey published almost 60...
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instance, the Toff, a character from the series of adventure novels by John Creasey, is an upper class crime sleuth who uses a common caricature of a toff...
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novel by John D. MacDonald The Executioner (French: Le Bourreau), a 1961 novel by Pierre Boulle The Executioners, a 1967 novel by John Creasey The Executioner...
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Get Between the Covers: Leave a Legacy by Writing a Book, page 225, on John Creasey: "Over his lifetime, he managed to write over 600 novels and to sell...
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Martin Richard may refer to: A pen name of John Creasey, English crime and science fiction writer Martin William Richard, an 8-year-old boy who was killed...
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admiral Henry St John, 18th Baron St John of Bletso (1876–1920), English peer Henry St. John Cooper (1869–1926), English author John Creasey (1908–1973),...
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The Baron (TV series) (redirect from John Mannering)
television series made in 1965 and 1966, based on the book series by John Creasey (written under the pseudonym Anthony Morton) and produced by ITC Entertainment...
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actively promotes National Crime Reading Month. The CWA was founded by John Creasey in 1953. It was chaired by Maxim Jakubowski (from April 2021) and has...
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£1250. Within four months, it had won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey award for best first novel and had been snapped up by 11 foreign publishers...
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(1993), received the 1994 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a 1995 John Creasey Memorial Award. This was followed by the 1996 Nero Award, for A Monstrous...
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Lieutenant William Cox (1764–1837), Australian pioneer born in Wimborne. John Creasey, English crime writer, lived at "Cattistock", Fernlea Avenue, Ferndown...
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On radio he starred as The Toff in the BBC radio adaptation of the John Creasey novels. He appeared in all but two episodes of Bergerac from 1981 to...
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Minette Walters published in 1992. The story was the recipient of a John Creasey award for best debut. Mrs Phoebe Maybury, a widow in her late thirties...
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of the Barnes Murder Squad. Her first novel was shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award. Elena Forbes was born and brought up in London...
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of queen Catherine Howard. After the queen’s death Tamasin marries Barak. John Skelly – Shardlake's law clerk, a middle-aged family man with weak eyesight...
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environmentalist Henry St. John Cooper (1869–1926), English writer Henry St. John Cooper, one of the pen names of English writer John Creasey (1908–1973) Sir Henry...
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Dissolution was nominated for the 2003 Crime Writers' Association (CWA) John Creasey Memorial Dagger, for first books by previously unpublished writers. It...
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his non-fiction book The River. His first novel, Scrublands, won the John Creasey Award at the UK Crime Writers' Association's Dagger Awards in 2019. The...
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Yard, a fictional detective in novels, film and television created by John Creasey Jason Gideon, a character in the television show Criminal Minds Moff...
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Gideon's Way (category John Creasey characters)
Entertainment and broadcast by ITV in 1964–1966. It is based on novels by John Creasey (writing as 'J. J. Marric'). The series was made at Elstree Studios in...
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Gideon's Day (film) (category Films directed by John Ford)
directed by John Ford and starring Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster and Cyril Cusack. The screenplay was by T.E.B. Clarke, adapted from John Creasey's 1955 novel...
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than thirty novels. Her first book, The Greenway, was nominated for a John Creasey Award in 1995 and received an Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Adams...
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