Ben Creed

Ben Creed is the shared pseudonym of Chris Rickaby and Barney Thompson. Rickaby was born in Newcastle, worked for several television broadcasters, and later founded a marketing and media agency. Thompson trained as a classical musician and studied for two years at the Conservatory in St Petersburg before moving into journalism. The novel described in the catalog was their first collaboration and the first case featuring Lieutenant Revol of the Leningrad police.