Toper's End
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 American first edition | |
| Author | G.D.H. Cole and Margaret Cole |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Superintendent Wilson |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Collins Crime Club Macmillan (US) |
Publication date | 1942 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Counterpoint Murder |
Toper's End is a 1942 detective novel by the British authors G.D.H. Cole and Margaret Cole.[1] It was the final entry in their series of over twenty books dating back to 1923 featuring Superintendent Wilson, a former officer of Scotland Yard turned Private Detective. Part of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, it takes place against the backdrop of the Second World War.[2] It was published by the Collins Crime Club.[3]
Ralph Partridge wrote in The New Statesman "The caricatures of refugee mentality are still amusing, but the plot is hackneyed and the detection, in spite of a great ox of a clue staring everyone in the face on an early page, is so feeble that Superintendent Wilson actually has to use third degree methods to extort a confession."[4] Maurice Richardson wrote a more appreciative review in The Observer.
