Two complete crime novels by John Creasey in one volume. "Gideon's Press" and "Inspector West at Home" published by Walter Black for the Detective Book Club, New York, stated "First American Edition 1973" for the Inspector West at Home.

Green hard boards, black lettering on front board and spine, 5.1/4" x 7.3/4"; 148 + 195 pages, very good condition.

"Inspector West at Home" is an early Roger West story, revised by John Creasey just before his death in June, 1973. Chief Inspector West is framed, accused of taking a bribe of a thousand pounds. His Scotland Yard career in peril, West is given a month to clear himself. He plunges into a mystery that involves murder, international conspiracy - and corruption at the Yard. 'Inspector West At Home' forms a fascinating chapter in the career of a policeman who is famous around the world.

John Creasey (1908-1973) was an English crime writer, also writing science fiction, romance and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.

John Creasey created several characters who are now famous, such as The Toff (The Honourable Richard Rollison), Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron (John Mannering), Doctor Emmanuel Cellini and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. The most popular of these was Gideon of Scotland Yard, who was the basis for the television series Gideon's Way and for the John Ford movie Gideon's Day (1958). The Baron character was also made into a 1960s TV series starring Steve Forrest as The Baron.

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