John Creasey

Double for the Toff (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Within a few minutes of each other, two puzzling yet unconnected cases are presented to The Honourable Richard Rollison (aka 'The Toff'), with requests for help. The beautiful Isabel Cole's fiancée is accused of murder and she needs to save him from what seems an unjust fate, whilst Cedric Dwight is being pursued by a gang of murderous hoodlums. Both are urgent and complex cases and for a moment it seems that 'The Toff' will have to choose between them. There is absolutely no connection between the cases and yet ....

Produktdetails

• Verlag: House of Stratus
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755137237
• Artikelnr.: 43979220

Autorenporträt

Master crime fiction writer John Creasey's near 600 titles have sold more than 80 million copies in over 25 languages under both his own name and ten other pseudonyms. His style varied with each identity and led to him being regarded as a literary phenomena. Amongst the many series written were 'Gideon of Scotland Yard', 'The Toff', 'The Baron', 'Dr. Palfrey' and 'Inspector West', as JJ Marric, Michael Halliday, Patrick Dawlish and others. During his lifetime Creasey enjoyed an ever increasing reputation both in the UK and overseas, especially the USA. This was further enhanced by constant revision of his works in order to assure the best possible be presented to his readers and also by many awards, not least of which was being honoured twice by the Mystery Writers of America, latterly as Grand Master. He also found time to found the Crime Writers Association and become heavily involved in British politics - standing for Parliament and founding a movement based on finding the best professionals in each sphere to run things. 'He leads a field in which Agatha Christie is also a runner.' - Sunday Times.