The Toff Goes to Market


Book Description

It’s a time of shortage and rationing. The Toff is in the army, but gets permission to visit his aunt who is supposedly on her death bed. Had she died, things would have been different, but as it was a recovery led to an investigation of the black market and wholesale murder, with both ‘The Toff’ and Scotland Yard battling those involved.




The Toff Goes to Market


Book Description

It’s a time of shortage and rationing. The Toff is in the army, but gets permission to visit his aunt who is supposedly on her death bed. Had she died, things would have been different, but as it was a recovery led to an investigation of the black market and wholesale murder, with both ‘The Toff’ and Scotland Yard battling those involved.




The Extortioners


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Professor Clayton is happily married, but there is another woman and also a teenage son who learns that the person he calls ‘uncle’ is actually his father. Now, Clayton is being blackmailed. Chief Inspector (‘Handsome’) West has to battle a motorcycle gang and dodge danger to himself and others as he fights to prevent the truth being revealed.




The Unfinished Portrait


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As John Mannering's wife paints a portrait of a celebrated beauty, Lady Deirdre Vandemeyer, she begins to doubt the authenticity of her subject. Then she is stabbed and Mannering (aka 'The Baron') goes undercover as a personal assistant to try and get to the bottom of the mystery. What he discovers sets the mind reeling and as always keeps the reader enthralled to the very last moment.




Policeman's Dread


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Roger West of Scotland Yard has to deal with possible corruption in the Police Force. Bribery is suspected as cases are dismissed because of faulty evidence, and a policeman is shot whilst another stands accused of violence against a suspect. Reputations are at stake as West moves further and deeper into the underworld of London’s criminal gangs.




Sport For Inspector West


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Guy Randall suffered a sudden and violent death. Roger West of Scotland Yard is tasked with solving the case, but is perplexed. All leads go back to a series of thefts from a chain of shops and nearly everyone involved seems to belong to the same Football Club. It is a very unusual and complex case which has an equally surprising conclusion.




A Splinter of Glass


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A bullion robbery has been pulled off by a totally ruthless and terrifying gang. Murder along the way is if no consequence to them. Now, they must protect their haul as they become increasingly desperate. Roger West of Scotland Yard, its finest and most methodical detective, has a splinter of glass as the only clue.




Death in Cold Print


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Roger ‘Handsome’ West of Scotland Yard is called to help solve a double murder in a printing works. The victims were lovers and suspicion falls on the woman’s husband. Then the works is sabotaged and there is a further murder. The local police are not impressed by West’s methods, and he realises there is more to this case than he thought.




Famous Movie Detectives III


Book Description

This book not only includes chapters on more than twenty new screen sleuths but also updates information on several detectives included in the first two volumes of Famous Movie Detectives. Author Michael Pitts also provides new material on sleuths in silent films and serials, as well as a listing of radio and television detective programs.




A Note From The Accused?


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Jim Mellor contemplates suicide. His fiancée, Judith, is distraught. His disappearance, following being accused of murder, may have some explanation in the fact that another woman, Clarissa Arden, also knows a James Mellor who is more than capable of committing murder. Can ‘The Toff’ rescue the situation and save the life of an innocent man?