The Edgar Awards Revisited: Gideon’s Fire by J.J. Marric (Best Novel; 1962)
By Kristin Centorcelli
March 1, 2019Gideon’s Fire is book 7 of the 26-volume series featuring New Scotland Yard Commander George Gideon. 21 of those were written by the shockingly prolific John Creasey—he wrote more than 600 books using 28 different pseudonyms—under the pseudonym J.J. Marric, with the last six penned by William Vivian Butler after Creasey’s death in 1973. The…