Seven Times Seven — John Creasey

Even one of the world's most prolific authors (over 600 titles) had to persevere to get published and so with this first published work begin an extraordinary career and global cannon of work. After eleven years of trying, hundreds of short stories and articles, and seven full-length books, SEVEN TIMES SEVEN was taken by publishers Andrew Melrose.

The review in the Morning Post at the time noted it as "a racy and amusing as well as up-to-date story of a gang of crooks whose operations are world wide and in whose clutches a famous film star finds herself unwittingly involved" and finding that Creasey "spins his yarn with speed and ingenuity."