The Masters Of Bow Street

This epic novel embraces the story of the Bow Street Runners, forerunners of the modern police force, founded by novelist Henry Fielding in 1748. They operated from the courts to enforce the decisions of magistrates. John Creasey gives an insight into family life of the time and the struggle between crime and justice. Splendidly authoritative!

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The fog was thick, sulphurous and impenetrable and just like old times before clean air legislation. Beneath it the villains went about their work quietly and largely undisturbed. Commander George Gideon was aware of this and meant to disturb their peace, but he found himself involved in a web that was more impenetrable than the fog itself.

Sheila is angry when Richard Rollison (aka ‘The Toff’) is reluctant to help. Her friend Danny has been arrested, but she proclaims his innocence. When Rollison meets Danny he hostile and doesn’t want anything to do with Sheila. Thus begins a mystery which inevitably sees Rollison drawn into danger – but this time from a very unusual source.

Inspector Roger (‘Handsome’) West of Scotland Yard has to deal with a millionaire who is being blackmailed, a kidnapped bride who is threatened with the horrors of an international vice racket and an utterly evil gangster from whose clutches no one is safe. This is a nightmare battle that he must win.

John Mannering - alias The Baron – picks up the telephone and hears a frightened man on the line. When he answers the front door he finds a superbly confidant woman standing there. She had been robbed of diamonds and needs Mannering's help. Are the two matters linked? As the story unfolds ‘The Baron’ and his wife are put in grave danger.