Commander George Gideon of the Scotland Yard is met at the office one morning with news of a sex maniac on the loose and a fire in an old tenement building south of the Thames. Two separate crimes of stunning savagery -- a fourteen-year-old girl rape...
When Scotland Yard Commander George Gideon first read the report of Rosamund Lee's murder, he was inclined to agree with the investigating constable that it was an isolated incident, a passion murder, and not the beginning of a spree. But as the inve...
FIRST ZEBRA BOOKS PRINTING. Feb.1991 mass market paperback, J. J. Marric (Gideon's Fire). Mrs Morneo had just lost her first baby - and it looked as if she would lose her own life too. Her husband had made no idle threat to the doctor involved. Comma...
Four heads of state are to meet in London. The usual suspects will be out on the streets attempting to con, or rob, spectators. But this is not the major problem faced by Scotland Yard''s finest, Commander George Gideon''s. It is known that assass...
Gideon's Risk...was as perilous as a tightrope walk over a pit of hungry lions: one false step and Scotland Yard's Commander George Gideon would be torn to pieces by the ravening beasts of London's urban jungle. The vicious Carter brothers--car thiev...
John Creasey writing as J. J. Marric studies a British general-election campaign, and examines especially its police aspects. From the protection of candidates (from burglars among other things), the dangerous activities of extremists of right and...
an award-winning mystery about Gideon of the Scotland Yard in which Gideon is faced with three cases: the murder of a candystore owner; an ipidemic of mindless shootings that holds a London suburb in terror; and, most personal and painful, the kidnap...
Scotland Yard's top detective, Commander Gideon, must stop the new flood of criminals from abroad--an Italian seeking control of the vice market, a sadistic American kidnapper, and an Australian psychopath with an appetite for sex spiced with murder...
Commissioner George Gideon is a busy man, especially when three of his colleagues require a touch of justice.
Chief Detective Superintendent Tom Riddel s seemingly watertight case against Sidney Stannet the head of a vice gang and protectio...
While taking sanctuary in a church, praying for his sins, a murderer is horrified to witness the theft of an altar plate. For him it is the worst kind of crime – sacrilege – and soon all London’s cathedrals and churches are at ri...
Available for the first time, The Gideon of Scotland Yard Series by JJ Marric (pseudonym of Grand Master John Creasey).
A gang is at work robbing any passenger they find travelling alone on the top deck of London's buses. One night they str...
Gideon's Night is inhabited by thugs, murderers, and maniacs as a rule. But on this particular evening, an unusually virulent pair of psychopaths is leaving behind a grisly trail of pain, grief, and blood. First, there's the "baby snatcher" - kidnapp...
John Creasey, writing as J.J Marric, brings hardened and loveable policeman George Gideon back on to the scene. Commander Gideon of London s Criminal Investigation Department, had thought he had seen it all in his time. That was until nine suburba...
Available for the first time, The Gideon of Scotland Yard Series by 'JJ Marric' (pseudonym of Grand Master John Creasey).
Gideon's day is a busy one. London is faced with the murder of a little girl and a policeman's murder. While trying to ...
Available for the first time, The Gideon of Scotland Yard Series by JJ Marric (pseudonym of Grand Master John Creasey).
No week in the life of Commander Gideon of Scotland Yard could be entirely uneventful. However, a mass escape from Millw...
The month of May seemed to be starting quietly enough for Inspector Gideon of Scotland Yard. But no sooner had he begun to relax in the sunny weather than things started happening all over the great metropolis… From an army of children seemi...
Commander George Gideon of the CID has an audacious raid planned. If it is successful the crime responsible for eighty percent of London crime will be wiped out. Nothing is ever simple, however.
First, the whole operation is whisked out of ...
Gideon must piece togther disparate clues--a waterlogged corpse, a kidnapped girl, the surfacing of waterproof packets near the Port of London, and missing industrial diamonds--to catch a group of diamond smugglers...
Gideon is trapped. He was tracking down all the mysterious happenings—the frequent power failures, the raging factory fire that took lives, and the murdering of children. How could he solve them if he himself was caught in a mind-boggling tr...
The trouble with horse racing is that some people bet on the outcome — and others try to control the outcome. Gideon receives a suspicious call from the police superintendent in charge of London''s toughest district. At first he believes it&...
As England's largest repository of art treasures, the National Gallery was one of London's most heavily guarded institutions. So when the museum reported that Velazquez's priceless painting "The Prince" had been stolen, Commander George Gideon of Sco...