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Mystery Motive
(1947)(The fifth book in the Superintendent Folly series)
A novel by Jeremy York (John Creasey)
It had seemed like an open and shut case, Arnold Coombes, solicitor, brutally murdered and his wallet found in the room of Paddy O'Hara, a simple case of a robbery gone bad.
But when the offices of Coombes' law firm are burnt to the ground and one of the other partners dies in the blaze it becomes apparent the police have the wrong man behind bars.
With only one partner in the firm left alive it was time for Superintendent Folly of Scotland Yard to investigate.
Fiction maestro John Creasey ( 1908 - 1973 ) was and remains an enigma. He was one of the biggest selling and (by most measures) the most prolific producer of fiction, of the 20th century, writing over 620 novels in both his own name and through over 25 different pseudonyms. Creasey's popularity is as staggering as his output with book sales approaching 100 million copies across 29 languages in over 100 countries. At the peak of his commercial success Creasey was selling 4 million books a year in the UK and USA alone. Protagonists such as Gideon of Scotland Yard, The Baron and The Toff are lynchpins of British post war crime fiction, and several Creasey works were adapted for TV and film.
Genre: Mystery
But when the offices of Coombes' law firm are burnt to the ground and one of the other partners dies in the blaze it becomes apparent the police have the wrong man behind bars.
With only one partner in the firm left alive it was time for Superintendent Folly of Scotland Yard to investigate.
Fiction maestro John Creasey ( 1908 - 1973 ) was and remains an enigma. He was one of the biggest selling and (by most measures) the most prolific producer of fiction, of the 20th century, writing over 620 novels in both his own name and through over 25 different pseudonyms. Creasey's popularity is as staggering as his output with book sales approaching 100 million copies across 29 languages in over 100 countries. At the peak of his commercial success Creasey was selling 4 million books a year in the UK and USA alone. Protagonists such as Gideon of Scotland Yard, The Baron and The Toff are lynchpins of British post war crime fiction, and several Creasey works were adapted for TV and film.
Genre: Mystery
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