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CUNNING AS A FOX by Kyle Hunt. 209 pages. Macmillan. $3.95. British Crimewriter John Creasey is a one-man Book-of-the-Month Club. Since 1931, under his own name and a dozen pseudonyms of wonderful ordinariness,* he has managed to write nearly 500 books. To his long list of heroes-Gideon of the Yard, The Toff, Handsome West-Creasey here adds his first new one in ten years. He is Dr. Emmanuel ("Manny") Cellini, psychiatrist first, detective second, who in this adventure is rung in to help not the bobbies but the criminal's neurotic parents. For them...
...John Creasey (190 pp.; Scribner; $2.95), involves the Scotland Yard operative with the least probable nickname-Inspector "Handsome" West-in the most deplorable of crimes: a hit-and-run driver has aggravated the servant problem by squashing a nice old nanny at a zebra crossing. But Nanny-as proper application of the least-likely-suspect-but-one rule should make clear at the beginning-has stickied her hands with something more than spilled oatmeal. The evildoers sin vigorously, and Handsome West ratiocinates like a computing machine, but despite their efforts, the book seems only a notch or two above...
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...
Brown Spares--Hawley, Thayer, Atwell, Nelson, Wood, Fagan, Newton, Creasey, Martin, Cartor, Reilly...