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Author Focus:John Creasey-Department Z
Murder Mystery; Crime Fiction; Espionage; Thrillers
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John Creasey - Department Z |
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John Creasey wrote the following titles under the Inspector West series and each hyperlinked title will take you to an entry below for that book. Books without hyperlinks will be entered when they come into stock. If we are out of stock, we will try and provide links to an alternative source. Useful Links: Department Z |
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About the Book: 'First came a Murder was my fifth book. When it was published in 1935, I was proud of it indeed. Dorothy L. Sayers, then the crime book critic of the Sunday Times injured that pride considerably when she said in her inimitable style: 'Here we have the thriller with all its gorgeous absurdities full blown...It is characteristic of the genre that the son of a dope-sniffing baronet should be an honourable... .' Story: Sir Basil Riordan-mysterious, frightening, and immensely wealthy. Was he also a killer? As head of England's elite secret service, 'Z' Department, Gordon Craigie had to find out. It wasn't an easy investigation. Too many important people were involved. A member of an exclusive London club was poisoned. Could Riordan or his son, Marcus, be involved? It looked that way. So Craigie assigned his best agent, Devenish, to the case. What Devenish found was no clear-cut case of homicide. Instead, it was a mad masquerade of murder, larceny, and deceit of the highest order and soon Craigie himself was in over his head... Contents: |
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Story: The Shape of the Crescent-Dipped in Good Men's Blood. It was a strange and mystifying blend of sport, drugs and wholesale homicide. The only usable clue was the Mark of the Crescent-a sign used on orders to kill issued by the mysterious tycoon of death. Gordon Craigie and the men from Department Z start on the trail at a country estate named Greylands-and move swiftly into a desperate duel to the death. |
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Story: Treason was a way of life. The British stand alone against the Germans and the terror of their round-the-clock bombing. As homes and cities are reduced to rubble, morale teeters on a delicate seesaw. Then an insidious enemy strikes where least expected-from within. Vital food supplies are destroyed and the country is flooded with leaflets predicting imminent starvation. Racing against time, Britain's ultra-secret Department Z soon realizes it is in mortal combat with ruthless men, so power hungry that treason and murder have become their way of life. Extract: 'The danger came from a child. As her father-if the man was her father-moved forward, she skipped aside, much as a child would do with someone of whom she was afraid. She reached the door, and from the chair on which she had folded her coat she took a small automatic pistol. She held it steadily, pointing it toward Davidson... .' |
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Story: British secrets are 'leaking' to the Nazis, and the men of Department Z are determined to stop the leak before D-Day invasion plans reach Berlin. It is a matter of days ... hours ... and VERY SUDDEN DEATH |
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Storyline: When David Garth returned from America, where his speeches on behalf of the Ministry of Propaganda had caused no small amount of concern, he was surprised to receive an unsigned invitation to an address in Wimbledon. He was even more suprised when he was approached by two agents of Department Z who were already aware of strange doings at the house in question, possibly aimed at disrupting Anglo-American unity. But what exactly was going on? Why should David Garth be involved? And why should an apparently motiveless murder by committed? |
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Story: A Cool Vendetta. Bill Loftus, number two man of England's secret Department Z, had very personal reasons for tracking down the men who were using international blackmail to rupture relations between Britain and the U.S and undermine the NATO Alliance. They had murdered his fiancée. But although Loftus was seeing red, he had to use all his professional cool to unravel the plot which entangled America's most powerful industrialist, three British peers of the realm and agents of unknown powers. In a violent, suprising climax, Loftus finds new love just before he shakes hands with death... Extract: 'Between Gales of laughter, Lewis called softly: "Getting desperate, Loftus? Enjoying it, Loftus?" |
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in Great Britain by Andrew Melrose 
by Arrow Books, number 937, in paperback, 192pp, no ISBN. Original Australian retail price: 60 cents 
in paperback, 192pp, as a revised edition
in the US by Popular Library in paperback 
in Great Britain in hardback by Stanley Paul
by Arrow Books, 190pp,
No ISBN. Original Australian retail price: 60c
in Great Britain by John Long Ltd
in the US by the Popular Library in paperback