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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.
John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) [1] was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns. He wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.
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In 1977, BBC Radio broadcast an adaptation of the novel in six parts, with Terence Alexander as The Toff. The serial has been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7.It was broadcast again on R4 extra in June 2012, December 2013, June 2020, January 2022, and February 2024.
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 . [ 1 ] It was one of a number of novels produced in the era that featured the booming wartime black market as a major plotline. [ 2 ]
Hammer the Toff: Maclean Rogers: Two films based on the John Creasey character The Toff. Salute the Toff was released on DVD in November 2013 and Hammer the Toff in March 2016. 1952: Salute the Toff: 1953: Small Town Story: Montgomery Tully: Football thriller with appearances by Denis Compton and the Arsenal and Millwall football teams.
Salute the Toff is a 1941 crime thriller novel by the British writer John Creasey. It is the sixth in his long-running featuring the gentleman amateur detective The Toff . [ 1 ]
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series that was made by ITC Entertainment and broadcast by ITV in 1964–1966. It is based on novels by John Creasey (writing as 'J. J. Marric'). [1]