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Although little known today and undoubtedly somewhat old-fashioned in his style of writing, John Creasey was a prolific and popular crime fiction writer in his day, writing more than 600 novels under a variety of pseudonyms. Among several popular character series, the most famous being perhaps The Toff, Creasey published 62 books in The Baron series between 1937 and 1979 under the pen name Anthony Morton. The Baron is a kind of Arsène Lupin figure, a notorious jewel thief who became a kind of folk hero for stealing from the rich to help out the poor. At the start of A Case for the Baron however, that life is all in the past, as John 'the Baron' Mannering adjusts to a quiet domestic life with his wife in their new cottage in the Hampshire countryside. He hasn't entirely left his secret life behind him of course. Superintendent Bristow of Scotland Yard knows a little of Mannering's past dealings with stolen jewels and even suspects he might be the notorious jewel thief, ...