Author: John Creasey
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755146336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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
Author: John Creasey
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755146336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755146336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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.
Death in Cold Print
Author: John Creasey
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755137124
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
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.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755137124
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
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.
The Extortioners
Author: John Creasey
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755137280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
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.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755137280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
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.
Famous Movie Detectives III
Author: Michael R. Pitts
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810836907
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810836907
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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?
Author: John Creasey
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755145925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
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?
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755145925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
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?
Literary Afterlife
Author: Bernard A. Drew
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078645721X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This is an encyclopedic work, arranged by broad categories and then by original authors, of literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors that created them. It includes book series that have continued under a deceased writer's real or pen name, undisguised offshoots issued under the new writer's name, posthumous collaborations in which a deceased author's unfinished manuscript is completed by another writer, unauthorized pastiches, and "biographies" of literary characters. The authors and works are entered under the following categories: Action and Adventure, Classics (18th Century and Earlier), Classics (19th Century), Classics (20th Century), Crime and Mystery, Espionage, Fantasy and Horror, Humor, Juveniles (19th Century), Juveniles (20th Century), Poets, Pulps, Romances, Science Fiction and Westerns. Each original author entry includes a short biography, a list of original works, and information on the pastiches based on the author's characters.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078645721X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This is an encyclopedic work, arranged by broad categories and then by original authors, of literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors that created them. It includes book series that have continued under a deceased writer's real or pen name, undisguised offshoots issued under the new writer's name, posthumous collaborations in which a deceased author's unfinished manuscript is completed by another writer, unauthorized pastiches, and "biographies" of literary characters. The authors and works are entered under the following categories: Action and Adventure, Classics (18th Century and Earlier), Classics (19th Century), Classics (20th Century), Crime and Mystery, Espionage, Fantasy and Horror, Humor, Juveniles (19th Century), Juveniles (20th Century), Poets, Pulps, Romances, Science Fiction and Westerns. Each original author entry includes a short biography, a list of original works, and information on the pastiches based on the author's characters.
Vigilantes & Biscuits
Author: John Creasey
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755126246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A city housing estate is out of hand, and out of bounds. There is no law. Some of the inhabitants decide to form their own vigilante group. It is up to Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard to restore the rule of law, but he also has to deal with the vicious killing of two brothers and the kidnapping of a leading biscuit manufacturer’s wife.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755126246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A city housing estate is out of hand, and out of bounds. There is no law. Some of the inhabitants decide to form their own vigilante group. It is up to Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard to restore the rule of law, but he also has to deal with the vicious killing of two brothers and the kidnapping of a leading biscuit manufacturer’s wife.
Impartiality Against The Mob
Author: John Creasey
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755134281
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A fascist organisation intends to attack a meeting of workers and Gideon of Scotland Yard has the job of ensuring the police maintain law and order and do not provoke either side. At the same time, brutal murder is occurring behind an anti-immigration campaign. Gideon finds himself risking his life so as to protect the force and its reputation.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755134281
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A fascist organisation intends to attack a meeting of workers and Gideon of Scotland Yard has the job of ensuring the police maintain law and order and do not provoke either side. At the same time, brutal murder is occurring behind an anti-immigration campaign. Gideon finds himself risking his life so as to protect the force and its reputation.
The Scene Of The Crime
Author: John Creasey
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755134400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
A man`s ambition and love of his beautiful wife, lead him to murder and robbery with violence. Superintendent Roger West, Scotland Yard’s best, and most down to earth, detective is called in, although not without family complications.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755134400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
A man`s ambition and love of his beautiful wife, lead him to murder and robbery with violence. Superintendent Roger West, Scotland Yard’s best, and most down to earth, detective is called in, although not without family complications.
The Depths
Author: John Creasey
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755134192
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Professor Corvell has stunned the scientific and political worlds with proposals relevant to space exploration. Dr. Palfrey and Z5 must protect him. But Corvall is swept off of a ship by a huge spout of water that follows the appearance of a small submarine. Dr. Palfrey and Z5 have to investigate.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755134192
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Professor Corvell has stunned the scientific and political worlds with proposals relevant to space exploration. Dr. Palfrey and Z5 must protect him. But Corvall is swept off of a ship by a huge spout of water that follows the appearance of a small submarine. Dr. Palfrey and Z5 have to investigate.