Word: creasey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gideon of Scotland Yard (John Ford; Columbia), directed by John (The Informer, Mister Roberts) Ford, a Hollywood veteran who has made more than 100 movies, is based on a detective story (Gideon's Day) by John Creasey, a 50-year-old Englishman who is one of the most prolific novelists alive.* Their combined skill has produced a fresh and frantic thriller that amusingly wraps up a day in the life of a London policeman...
...name and under eleven pen names, Wordsmith Creasey has published 366 novels, many of them whodunits, which have sold more than 18 million copies in the last 29 years. Creasey often turns out a 60,000-word novel in six days, has written as many as 15 a year. Asked to give an explanation for the rate of production, he once modestly replied: "I can type with only two fingers...