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...memoir and a how-to-do-it on bullfighting, Muriel Spark poems and stories, Tom Wolfe a collection of essays and a report on Novelist Ken Kesey, the Norman Mailer of the West Coast. But all this conspicuous industry settles into sloth when compared with Mystery Writer John Creasey's publishing schedule for the year: 15 books under four different names...
...BARON (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). What ABC calls its "second season" spawns a third new spy-this time a London antique dealer pressed into service by British intelligence. Based on a character created by Mystery Writer John Creasey, the series stars Steve Forrest. Premiere...
...even more painless stratagem is to latch on to a mystery or thriller writer who is not yet widely known. Fleming and le Carré, of course, are old-gat. So are Britain's Len Deighton (The Ipcress File) and John Creasey (Death of an Assassin), whose books have been made into movies. Georges Simenon, the prolific French author whose Inspector Maigret has solved more than 60 book-length cases to date, has yet to win a mass following in the U.S., despite his fine ear for Gallic nuance and a geographer's eye for locale. One enterprising...
...hero and a racy Paris setting; The Interrogators, by Allan Prior, in which two doughty Scotland Yard men are hampered in their pursuit by their heavy drinking; Midnight Plus One, by Gavin Lyall, a kaleidoscopic Bondian yarn; and Cunning as a Fox, by Kyle Hunt (a pseudonym of John Creasey), in which the sleuth is a psychiatrist hired by the wanted teen-ager's frantic parents...
...hero and a racy Paris setting; The Interrogators, by Allan Prior, in which two doughty Scotland Yard men are hampered in their pursuit by their heavy drinking; Midnight Plus One, by Gavin Lyall, a kaleidoscopic Bondian yarn; and Cunning as a Fox, by Kyle Hunt (a pseudonym of John Creasey), in which the sleuth is a psychiatrist hired by the wanted teenager's frantic parents...