Ben the tramp, self-confessed coward and ex-sailor, is back in the Merchant Service and shipwrecked in the Pacific.
J. Jefferson Farjeon Livres
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon est issu d'une dynastie littéraire, suivant les traces de son père romancier. Il s'est forgé une carrière prolifique, écrivant plus de quatre-vingts romans qui ont magistralement mêlé mystère et romance, s'établissant comme un des premiers innovateurs dans la fusion de ces genres. Ses œuvres sont célébrées pour leur humour fin, leur esprit vif et leurs intrigues souvent palpitantes et sinistres qui captivaient les lecteurs. La capacité de Farjeon à créer des intrigues ingénieuses et des personnages vivants lui a valu une large reconnaissance pour ses récits divertissants.
Ben the tramp, the awkward Cockney with no home and no surname, turns detective again - and runs straight into trouble.
Ben the tramp, with his usual genius for trouble, runs into danger when he finds a dead body and decides to help out.
Ben the tramp's uncanny knack of running into trouble is unsurpassed in the final crime thriller written for him by J. Jefferson Farjeon.
With his usual knack of getting into trouble, Ben the tramp finds himself hunted by the law and the lawless.in this breathless adventure.
Thirteen Guests
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house, when events take a sinister turn. A painting is mutilated, a dog stabbed, and a man strangled. Death strikes more than one of the house guests and its up to Detective Inspector Kendall's to uncover this murder mystery.
Ben the tramp is back at sea, a stowaway bound for Spain in the company of a wanted man - the Hammersmith murderer.
Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies. Detective Inspector Kendall takes on the case with the help of passing yachtsman Thomas Hazeldean. The search for the house's absent owners brings Hazeldean across the Channel to Boulogne, where he finds more than one motive to stay and investigate. Seven Dead is an atmospheric crime novel first published in 1939.
The return of Ben, the prince of tramps with his rich Cockney humour and naive philosophies - and in trouble as usual.
Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Originally published: London: Wright & Brown, 1937.
