Everyone knows that John Creasey is one of the great kings of the crime novel, but do you know that he first got his break via a fish and chips wrapper? We neither – that’s why we interviewed his son, Richard Creasey and he let us know some surprising things about the man and legend as well as some personal anecdotes that you won’t be able to find anywhere else.

One of the magic things about Dad was that he was a storyteller, and therefore if you read his biography you’ll find that many of the stories I’ll tell he told to audiences in two or three different ways. So it’s not always the same story, it was always a story slightly made up but it always got to the same ending…