Judith Lorne is distraught; her fiance, James Mellor, has disappeared. He's accused of murder - something she finds impossible to believe. But the man Clarissa Arden also knows as James Mellor is quite capable of committing murder. James, meanwhile, is in a dingy bedsit in a state of panic and about to take his own life. Into this confusion steps The Toff - the name the criminal investigator Richard Rollinson is known by. Moving with debonair charm between the country houses of the gentry and low dives of the East End, he must disentangle the threads of blackmail and hatred if he is to succeed in preventing the deaths of innocent men...
Reprint Panther paperback edition, 1963, this was one of 60 (!) novels by John Creasey in this Toff series alone , being an incredibly prolific author. Light edgewear, creasing and some bumps to spine, internally unmarked, usual light age tanning to page block, small mark on lower back cover where it looks as if a price label was removed.