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Mrs Morneo had just lost her first baby - and it looked as if she would lose her own life too. Her husband had made no idle threat to the doctor involved. Commander Gideon had his hands full - a rapist, food poisoning, gangs of thieves and a murdered doctor.
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John Creasey was the seventh of nine children born to Joseph Creasey, a coachmaker, and Ruth Creasey. They were very poor, and John suffered a bout of polio, resulting in his not learning to walk until he was six. He was ten when a schoolmaster suggested he had a gift for writing.
He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 1946 for services in the United Kingdom's National Savings Movement during World War II. He wrote over 565 books under 25 pseudonyms."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherHodder and Stoughton
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0340209615
- ISBN 13 9780340209615
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages188
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Colin Andrews (Jacket design) (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Jacket design by Colin Andrews. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked, with just a light crease to the top edge of the front board. Corners sharp. Top edge of page block slightly foxed. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No internal foxing. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £3.25 net. The dustwrapper is complete, but with some rubbing and creasing to the extremities. There is a small closed tear and associated crease to the top edge of the front panel where the board is creased. The back panel is slightly discoloured (being a white background). The spine of the dustwrapper is also faded. ***189 pages. 190mm x 130mm. ***'John Creasey MBE (17 Sep 1908 - 9 Jun 1973) was an English crime writer, also writing science fiction, romance and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. He created several characters who are now famous, such as The Toff (The Honourable Richard Rollison), Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron (John Mannering), Doctor Emmanuel Cellini and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. The most popular of these was Gideon of Scotland Yard, who was the basis for the television series Gideon's Way and for the John Ford movie Gideon's Day (1958). The Baron character was also made into a 1960s TV series starring Steve Forrest as The Baron.' (Wiki) ***'George Gideon, with his courage, his integrity and his fair share of good old-fashioned common sense, is surely the finest of all British policemen, whose fundamental reality he typifies. This is the twenty-first book about him, his wife and family, his devoted staff; and about the multifarious crimes he deals with and the criminals he understands and defeats - often at the expense of his own personal comfort and happiness. ***Here are rape and murder, sex and violence, petty misdemeanours and vast conspiracies - all the myriad faces of Evil; and against them strives George Gideon, tireless upholder of Good and justice. ***This is part of John Creasey's legacy to his devoted followers - a collection of stories as exciting and as real as any that Gideon has ever been involved in.' ***'The finest of all Scotland Yard series' New York Times ***(Quote and review quote taken from the front and back flaps of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper in very good condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 3496x
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Colin Andrews (Jacket design) (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Jacket design by Colin Andrews. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Corners sharp. Edges of page block clean. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No internal foxing. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £3.25 net. The dustwrapper is complete, but with some rubbing and creasing to the extremities. There is a small closed tear and associated crease to the bottom edge of the back panel, and a small nick at the bottom of the spine. The back panel is only slightly discoloured (being a white background). The spine of the dustwrapper is completely unfaded. ***189 pages. 190mm x 130mm. ***'John Creasey MBE (17 Sep 1908 - 9 Jun 1973) was an English crime writer, also writing science fiction, romance and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. He created several characters who are now famous, such as The Toff (The Honourable Richard Rollison), Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron (John Mannering), Doctor Emmanuel Cellini and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. The most popular of these was Gideon of Scotland Yard, who was the basis for the television series Gideon's Way and for the John Ford movie Gideon's Day (1958). The Baron character was also made into a 1960s TV series starring Steve Forrest as The Baron.' (Wiki) ***'George Gideon, with his courage, his integrity and his fair share of good old-fashioned common sense, is surely the finest of all British policemen, whose fundamental reality he typifies. This is the twenty-first book about him, his wife and family, his devoted staff; and about the multifarious crimes he deals with and the criminals he understands and defeats - often at the expense of his own personal comfort and happiness. ***Here are rape and murder, sex and violence, petty misdemeanours and vast conspiracies - all the myriad faces of Evil; and against them strives George Gideon, tireless upholder of Good and justice. ***This is part of John Creasey's legacy to his devoted followers - a collection of stories as exciting and as real as any that Gideon has ever been involved in.' ***'The finest of all Scotland Yard series' New York Times ***(Quote and review quote taken from the front and back flaps of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper in really nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 1914x
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