Lend a Hand to Murder

Martin Lester was working in his office late one night totally unaware that in the office next door a colleague was being brutally murdered. After spending the whole next day in police custody Martin learned that he was one of a small group of suspects which included the lovely Isabella Crane who Martin was most surprised to find waiting for him at his lodgings that evening with a proposition to "Lend a hand to murder".

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 including; Michael Halliday, Norman Deane, Gordon Ashe, Jeremy York, JJ Maric and Anthony Morton.

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