num_pages: 288
description: Humphrey Paxton the son of one of Britain's leading atomic boffins has taken to carrying a shotgun to 'shoot plotters and blackmailers and spies'. His new tutor the plodding Mr Thewless suggests that Humphrey might be overdoing it somewhat. But when a man is found shot dead at a cinema Mr Thewless is plunged into a nightmare world of lies kidnapping and murder - and grave matters of national security.
language: English
title: The Case of the Journeying Boy
publisher: HarperCollins