- Born
- September 17, 1908
- Died
- June 9, 1973 (aged 64)
- Known as
- writer, novelist, science fiction writer
John Creasey 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.
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