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The Toff is usually above politics. He’s an independent and dislikes party regimentation. But when a favorite MP is murdered immediately before the elections, friends urge him to run for Parliament. An old girl friend is particularly persistent She’s just arrived from America and her surefire journalistic instinct tells her that feature articles on the famed Toff’s launch into politics would sell well back home. Those who have known him, those who have shared his lifetime devotion to justice, those who have risked death at his side, know that Rollison is not joking. But there are others who think that his desire to contest a parliamentary election is just a playboy’s whim, a passing fancy, while others react with vicious threats and brutal murder because they believe his politicking is just an excuse to find the late MP’s murderers and expose a ring of dangerous drug peddlers.
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AKA Gordon Ashe, M E Cooke, Norman Deane, Robert Caine Frazer, Patrick Gill, Michael Halliday, Charles Hogarth, Brian Hope, Colin Hughes, Kyle Hunt, Margaret Lisle, Abel Mann, Peter Manton, J.J. Marric, Richard Martin, Rodney Mattheson, Anthony Morton, Jeremy York, Henry St. John Cooper and Margaret Cooke. John Creasey (September 17, 1908 - June 9, 1973) was born in Southfields, Surrey, England and died in New Hall, Bodenham, Salisbury Wiltshire, England. He was the seventh of nine children in a working class home. He became an English author of crime thrillers, published in excess of 600 books under 20+ different pseudonyms. He invented many famous characters who would appear in a whole series of novels. Probably the most famous of these is Gideon of Scotland Yard, the basis for the television program Gideon's Way but others include Department Z, Dr. Palfrey, The Toff, Inspector Roger West, and The Baron (which was also made into a television series). In 1962, Creasey won an Edgar Award for Best Novel, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Gideon's Fire, written under the pen name J. J. Marric. And in 1969 he was given the MWA's highest honor, the Grand Master Award.
