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- The Toff Goes to Market is a 1942 crime thriller novel by the British writer John Creasey. It was the eighth in his long-running featuring the gentleman amateur detective The Toff. It was one of a number of novels produced in the era that featured the booming wartime black market as a major plotline.
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The Toff Goes to Market is a 1942 crime thriller novel by the British writer John Creasey. It was the eighth in his long-running featuring the gentleman amateur detective The Toff. It was one of a number of novels produced in the era that featured the booming wartime black market as a major plotline. It has been republished on a number of ...
The Toff, one of John Creasey's knock offs of the Saint, finds himself up against a war time black market ring, when his aunt, one of his few relatives that he likes, buys a case of canned salmons from the marketeers and comes down with food poisoning.
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In the series of adventure novels by John Creasey, the Toff is the nickname of the Honourable Richard Rollison, an upper-class crime sleuth. [1] Creasey published almost 60 Toff adventures, beginning with Introducing the Toff in 1938 and continuing through The Toff and the Crooked Copper, published in 1977, four years after the author's death.
But the black market meant more to the men of Scotland Yard, and when the Toff's Aunt Mattie bought a shortcut to death from her friendly neighborhood crook, Rollison found himself mixed in with retail profiteering -- and wholesale murder!
The Toff, the high-living, villain-hating, law-bending Honorable Richard Rollison. Introducing the Toff (Toff, #1), The Toff Goes On (Toff, #2), The Toff...
Sep 20, 2015 · The Toff Goes to Market. Paperback – September 20, 2015. It’s a time of shortage and rationing. The Honourable Richard Rollison (aka ‘The Toff’) is in the army, but gets permission to visit his aunt, Lady Matilda Wirrington, who is supposedly on her death bed.
- John Creasey
When luxuries are in short supply, it's only natural for astute businessmen to find a way of turning a dishonest pound. But the Black Market meant more to the men of Scotland Yard, and when the...
