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D51-17B-582

The Terror: The Return of Dr. Palfrey

The Terror: The Return of Dr. Palfrey

by John Creasey

Publisher Hodder and Stoughton

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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  • UK First Edition, First Printing


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About the book

The story of the near-panic that strikes the world's governments when an unidentified object carrying a super-powerful nuclear war-head approaches earth, and a series of other war aimed events that prove to be the work of a megalomaniac with ambitions for world power.

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About the Author

John Creasey

John Creasey was an English crime writer, who also wrote romance and western novels, and in total, wrote more than six hundred novels.


He 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. The Baron character was also made into a 1960s TV series starring Steve Forrest as The Baron.


In 1962, Creasey won an Edgar Award for Best Novel, from the Mystery Writers of America (MWA), for Gideon's Fire, written under the pseudonym J. J. Marric. In 1969 he received the MWA's greatest honour, the Grand Master Award. He served one term as president of the organization in 1966, one of only three non-American writers to be so honoured.

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