Ben the Tramp Series by J. Jefferson Farjeon (.ePUB)
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Ben the Tramp Series (#1-8) by J. Jefferson Farjeon
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Overview: “Ben really is a tramp. He’s not Sherlock Holmes in disguise, and he’s not a toff slumming it. He’s a full-blown, hungry, homeless destitute in ragged clothes, who sleeps rough, and can’t remember when he last took a bath. He couldn’t be further from Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L Sayers’s aristocratic detective. Unlike Wimsey with his string of names and titles, Ben doesn’t even have a surname. There was no Eton and Oxford for Ben: he’s ill-educated, and he’s not very bright either. He doesn’t befriend police officers, and his usual reaction when he sees a copper is to run. Nor does he solve crimes so much as stumble into them, usually by the chance discovery of a corpse.
He’s cowardly, yet oddly courageous too; despite his fears he will go into those dark cellars or cross dangerous men. He’s also dogged, and chivalrous. What Ben won’t do to protect a girl he admires is nobody’s business. He faces death – someone is always trying to kill him – with grim humour. He has his own moral code – thieving and harming others are not part of it. He doesn’t have a great deal of respect for his so-called betters, and is liable to deal with attempts to patronise or belittle him with hilarious back-chat.
What a brilliant and unusual detective!.. “
Lucienne Boyce
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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