John Creasey

An Apostle Of Gloom (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Inspector Roger West had hoped for a day off - it was his wife's birthday. Then a Chief Superintendent turns up at his home with a search warrant. He is accused of taking a bribe. Elaborately framed, he is now under investigation. Plunged into a world of murder and conspiracy, along with corruption at Scotland Yard, West has to work his way through a number of suspects, as the mystery twists and turns, in order to clear his name.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: House of Stratus
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755134120
• Artikelnr.: 41460499

Autorenporträt

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 Writers 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. 'He leads a field in which Agatha Christie is also a runner.' - Sunday Times.