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Creasey wrote more than 600 books, using numerous pseudonyms, including J. J. Marric, Anthony Morton and Gordon Ashe. 
Under the Gordon Ashe name, he wrote around 50 thrillers featuring Patrick Dawlish, a formidable, physically imposing adventurer who progresses from amateur crime-fighter to intelligence work and Scotland Yard.
The series began in 1939 with The Speaker and Death on Demand, continuing into the 1970s. 
Very much pulp fiction, particularly the earlier books. Fast-moving plots, sensational crimes, resourceful heroes and a certain cheerful disregard for plausibility.
Dawlish belongs to the tradition of Bulldog Drummond rather than the psychological detective novel.
One delightful detail: Creasey apparently adopted the name Ashe from the Hampshire village where he was living in 1938. 
Creasey is also an interesting figure in publishing history. He was effectively a one-man fiction factory, but his George Gideon police procedurals, written as J. J. Marric, attracted considerable critical respect.
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