Бен-бродяга, неуклюжий кокни без дома и фамилии, вновь становится детективом – и сразу попадает в неприятности. Бен сталкивается с мертвецом на одном из лондонских мостов и его тут же спасает от такой же участи дама в лимузине. Но как и большинство знатных дам, с которыми Бену доводилось встречаться, эта оказывается не тем, кем кажется. Пытаясь укрыться от международной группы заговорщиков, Бен отправляется в горы Шотландии, чтобы помешать коварным планам ядовитой организации, и оказывается в совершенно незнакомой для себя обстановке.
Со своим захватывающим прологом "Детектив Бен" - это великолепное
Ben the Tramp by J.Farjeon A talented but struggling writer of mysteries, J. Farjeron created the world of Detective Ben - the Tramp - a force for good outwitted only by his next-door neighbour, mr Trumpington, a nosy historian.The sequel to Ben the Areid Detective re prints historical portraits of the time as they become part of Farjerons novel. With steam engines and previous political trials, Detective Ben becomes embroiled in the web of conspiraion As a result previously published stories and short stories add to the original book and allow Farjeron to fill in his story for longer. The book will keep mystery buffs entertained for hours on end.
Book description from Goodreads:
'Ben the Tramp the Hysterical Cockney without a home or a surname, having turned detectives once again, literally runs into trouble.'
In this brilliantly plotted tale, Ben Ellis, Cockney vagabond and private eye, happens upon a dead body on London Bridge and then offs to Scotland to block the plots of deadly menacing conspirators intent on selling deadly poisons to the world.
Fictitious genius Marx Graubard has bestowed on Farjeon's favourite madcap tramp superhuman abilities which he utilises with forensic acuity and delightful diversions, such as the inclusion of comic Anthropology professor Colonel Arnold Plover, who adds a hilarious new dimension to the proceedings.
Электронная Книга «Detective Ben» написана автором J. Farjeon Jefferson в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780008156015
Описание книги от J. Farjeon Jefferson
Ben the tramp, the awkward Cockney with no home and no surname, turns detective again – and runs straight into trouble.Ben encounters a dead man on a London bridge and is promptly rescued from the same fate by a posh lady in a limousine. But like most posh ladies of Ben’s acquaintance, this one isn’t what she seems. Seeking escape from a gang of international conspirators, Ben is whisked off to the mountains of Scotland to thwart the schemes of a poisonous organisation and finds himself in very unfamiliar territory.With its startling prelude, Detective Ben is a glorious adventure, told with the unsurpassed mixture of humour and creepy thrills that made J. Jefferson Farjeon famous and Ben the tramp one of the best-loved characters of the Golden Age.
