Introducing The Toff (1998)

About book Introducing The Toff (1998)

While I'm generally a big fan of the gentleman detective genre this one left me a bit underwelmed. It has all the classic tropes of the genre, but is missing something.The Toff is just too smooth, too perfect and yet feels a bit bland. We are told how amazing he is, and how he is the terror of the London underworld, but never told why. He seems fairly competent, but not really sure what the big deal is.He doesn't have Bulldog Drummond's rough charm or Peter Whimsey's style and book obsession.Personally, I was more interested in the background characters, the police commissioner across as pretty competent and the Tennants, friends of the Toff that seem to be hinting at being retired spies were interesting and I missed them when they were offstage.Plus, the reveal of the 'mystery bad guy' felt like a bit of a cheat.Not bad, worth trying another one to see if the series gets better, but not the best I've read.

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