• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • and judge, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995) 1908 – John Creasey, English author and politician (d. 1973) 1908 – Rafael Israelyan, Armenian...
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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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  • Maclean Rogers and starring John Bentley and Patricia Dainton. The film was based on the 1947 novel of the same name by John Creasey, the 17th in the series...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • described it as "full of Australianness". Hammer was awarded the 2019 John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger by the UK Crime Writers' Association for the book...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • by English writer Minette Walters. 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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  • novel Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal won the Crime Writers' Association "John Creasey Memorial Award" and was filmed in 1981 as Le Professionnel starring Jean-Paul...
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  • Watson’s second novel." Winner of the 2011 Crime Writer's Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Winner of the Galaxy National Book Award for Thriller...
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  • refer to: 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...
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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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  • "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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    Democratic John Creasey 6 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,976 N/A   Marxist-Leninist (England) John Buckle 6 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,419 N/A   National Independence John Davis 1 0...
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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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