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Dr Palfrey #27
The Blight
A sudden and mysterious disease which threatens the world's timber supplies ... a powerful international organisation which aims at world domination ..a plan to create a master-race by selective breeding and by the elimination of the unfit ... these are the hazards which Dr Palfry and his second-in-command Stefan Andromovitch encounter at the remote forestry project in California.
To prevent the worldwide destruction of trees and to topple the fanatic organistion involves Dr Palfrey in one of his most dangeropus and exciting adventures yet.
To prevent the worldwide destruction of trees and to topple the fanatic organistion involves Dr Palfrey in one of his most dangeropus and exciting adventures yet.
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First published May 1, 1968
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John Creasey
697 books78 followersAKA Gordon Ashe, M E Cooke, Norman Deane, Robert Caine Frazer, Patrick Gill, Michael Halliday, Charles Hogarth, Brian Hope, Colin Hughes, Kyle Hunt, Margaret Lisle, Abel Mann, Peter Manton, J.J. Marric, Richard Martin, Rodney Mattheson, Anthony Morton, Jeremy York, Henry St. John Cooper and Margaret Cooke.
John Creasey (September 17, 1908 - June 9, 1973) was born in Southfields, Surrey, England and died in New Hall, Bodenham, Salisbury Wiltshire, England. He was the seventh of nine children in a working class home. He became an English author of crime thrillers, published in excess of 600 books under 20+ different pseudonyms. He invented many famous characters who would appear in a whole series of novels. Probably the most famous of these is Gideon of Scotland Yard, the basis for the television program Gideon's Way but others include Department Z, Dr. Palfrey, The Toff, Inspector Roger West, and The Baron (which was also made into a television series). In 1962, Creasey won an Edgar Award for Best Novel, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Gideon's Fire, written under the pen name J. J. Marric. And in 1969 he was given the MWA's highest honor, the Grand Master Award.
John Creasey (September 17, 1908 - June 9, 1973) was born in Southfields, Surrey, England and died in New Hall, Bodenham, Salisbury Wiltshire, England. He was the seventh of nine children in a working class home. He became an English author of crime thrillers, published in excess of 600 books under 20+ different pseudonyms. He invented many famous characters who would appear in a whole series of novels. Probably the most famous of these is Gideon of Scotland Yard, the basis for the television program Gideon's Way but others include Department Z, Dr. Palfrey, The Toff, Inspector Roger West, and The Baron (which was also made into a television series). In 1962, Creasey won an Edgar Award for Best Novel, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Gideon's Fire, written under the pen name J. J. Marric. And in 1969 he was given the MWA's highest honor, the Grand Master Award.
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October 24, 2010
A Dr Palfrey suspense- adventure. The plot line reads 'The agents of Z5 fight to save the world from a disease that threatens all life. It's what it is. Reminds me of the Man from U.N.C.L.E books I read as a kid. A nice quick read though
March 3, 2013
Always a treat to reread a Dr. Palfrey. Ah, the books of my childhood. The villains are more regular folks than in "Bond." Well, some of them. You can see the roots of a far number of SF notions.
July 1, 2014
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