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Portrait image of John Creasey Photo: Central Press/Hulton Archive via Getty Images (1956)

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Creasey, John

The British author John Creasey has been described as a productive literary phenomenon. According to the experts, around 530 novels have been published under his own name and 28 different pseudonyms. In 1937 alone, he published 29 new titles. He was best known for his crime stories, but he also wrote spy and agent thrillers, science fiction, westerns, romances, adventure stories and about 40...

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Easy (Ezekiel) Rawlins

Gender: Male

Afro-American war veteran, who in the late 1940s established himself as a private detective in Los Angeles. In the books by Walter Mosley we get to follow his life during the decades that follow. For example, Ezekiel Porterhouse ‘Easy’ Rawlins gets married to Regina, they have a daughter Edna and adopt the dumb Jesus. Easy is a pleasant, quick-thinking and nice-looking man and he uses fantastic, c...

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