Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard has to deal successively with
news of a mass murderer, a depraved maniac, and the deaths of a family
in an arson attack on an old building south of the river. This leaves
little time for the crisis developing at home...
Master crime fiction writer John Creasey's near 600 titles have sold
more than 80 million copies in over 25 languages under both his own name
and ten other pseudonyms. His style varied with each identity and led to
him being regarded as a literary phenomena. Amongst the many series
written were 'Gideon of Scotland Yard', 'The Toff', 'The Baron', 'Dr.
Palfrey' and 'Inspector West', as JJ Marric, Michael Halliday, Patrick
Dawlish and others.
During his lifetime Creasey enjoyed an ever increasing reputation both
in the UK and overseas, especially the USA. This was further enhanced by
constant revision of his works in order to assure the best possible be
presented to his readers and also by many awards, not least of which was
being honoured twice by the Mystery Writer's of America, latterly as
Grand Master. He also found time to found the Crime Writers Association
and become heavily involved in British politics--standing for Parliament
and founding a movement based on finding the best professionals in each
sphere to run things.
