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Detective Ben
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Detective Ben
J. Jefferson Farjeon
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.
J. JEFFERSON FARJEON
Detective Ben
Copyright (#uf15cc85b-7b42-5866-a77c-d57425d655fa)
COLLINS CRIME CLUB
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
First published in Great Britain for Crime Club by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1936
Copyright © Estate of J. Jefferson Farjeon 1936
Cover design by Mike Topping © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016
Cover background images © shutterstock.com (http://shutterstock.com)
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
Source ISBN: 9780008156008
Ebook Edition © August 2016 ISBN: 9780008156015
Version: 2016-06-14
Table of Contents
Cover (#u99b05d1f-eb08-5836-9bec-355c2346c3f0)
Title Page (#u30d86c7f-45f0-50e4-a2df-03525217dd6a)
Copyright (#ue6bc63a7-5b34-51ca-b411-27500b73a888)
Chapter 1: Happenings on a Bridge (#u51418a4b-0518-56c1-90f4-8a016f81d758)
Chapter 2: The Dark Journey (#uc9691bb0-a765-5be5-80b6-d285a0b2994f)
Chapter 3: Questions Without Answers (#u0234a013-80ef-5f93-a38c-bccbe46d2794)
Chapter 4: The Man in the Next Room (#u207e8019-f3bf-5b4d-ba91-a206d5f38072)
Chapter 5: What the Morning Brought (#u88f96ea6-740b-51df-901b-2d3a49348572)
Chapter 6: Acid Test (#u4762ac0f-06b5-5f04-91a8-26f128f2c722)
Chapter 7: The Signal Arrives (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 8: Northward Through the Night (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 9: Mr Smith, of Boston (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 10: Exit Mr Smith, of Boston (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 11: At the Black Swan (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 12: MacTavish (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 13: And So to Bed (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 14: By Candlelight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15: Friend in Need (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16: Ben Murders Himself (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17: Consultation in the Mist (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18: In the Wake of MacTavish (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19: The Old Man (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20: Someone at the Door (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21: Development of a Game (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22: The Plan (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23: Meanwhile, Outside— (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24: Dead Men’s Ears (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25: Down the Mountain (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26: Back to Muirgissie (#litres_trial_promo)
J. Jefferson Farjeon
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.
J. JEFFERSON FARJEON
Detective Ben
Copyright (#uf15cc85b-7b42-5866-a77c-d57425d655fa)
COLLINS CRIME CLUB
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
First published in Great Britain for Crime Club by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1936
Copyright © Estate of J. Jefferson Farjeon 1936
Cover design by Mike Topping © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016
Cover background images © shutterstock.com (http://shutterstock.com)
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
Source ISBN: 9780008156008
Ebook Edition © August 2016 ISBN: 9780008156015
Version: 2016-06-14
Table of Contents
Cover (#u99b05d1f-eb08-5836-9bec-355c2346c3f0)
Title Page (#u30d86c7f-45f0-50e4-a2df-03525217dd6a)
Copyright (#ue6bc63a7-5b34-51ca-b411-27500b73a888)
Chapter 1: Happenings on a Bridge (#u51418a4b-0518-56c1-90f4-8a016f81d758)
Chapter 2: The Dark Journey (#uc9691bb0-a765-5be5-80b6-d285a0b2994f)
Chapter 3: Questions Without Answers (#u0234a013-80ef-5f93-a38c-bccbe46d2794)
Chapter 4: The Man in the Next Room (#u207e8019-f3bf-5b4d-ba91-a206d5f38072)
Chapter 5: What the Morning Brought (#u88f96ea6-740b-51df-901b-2d3a49348572)
Chapter 6: Acid Test (#u4762ac0f-06b5-5f04-91a8-26f128f2c722)
Chapter 7: The Signal Arrives (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 8: Northward Through the Night (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 9: Mr Smith, of Boston (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 10: Exit Mr Smith, of Boston (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 11: At the Black Swan (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 12: MacTavish (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 13: And So to Bed (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 14: By Candlelight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15: Friend in Need (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16: Ben Murders Himself (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17: Consultation in the Mist (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18: In the Wake of MacTavish (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19: The Old Man (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20: Someone at the Door (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21: Development of a Game (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22: The Plan (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23: Meanwhile, Outside— (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24: Dead Men’s Ears (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25: Down the Mountain (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26: Back to Muirgissie (#litres_trial_promo)
