Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard

by John Creasey

Commander George Gideon, or ‘GG’ as he is affectionately known, is a big yet gentle man who is admired by his colleagues, although they know well to avoid him if he loses his temper. He has a prodigious memory and an ability to think both laterally and about more than one thing at a time. Having risen through the ranks of the Metropolitan Police, he knows the law and applies it scrupulously. He also knows London, which he views with great affection, and lives in a modest house in a nonetheless gentile area of Fulham.

He is married to Kate, who has retained her youthful attractiveness, and is both house proud and detached from Gideon’s work. Accordingly, on many occasions George Gideon appears to fail a little on the domestic front as he tries to balance his time between the two. Indeed, each of the Gideon novels displays him as juggling somewhat between not one, but several cases at work and a minor domestic crisis as well. Kate is nonetheless calm and understanding and after long hours chasing villains there is nothing Gideon likes more than to return to his family – which is large, there being six children and by the time of the last novel in the late 1980’s, also a grandchild.

These titles can be read as a series, or randomly as standalone novels