Title: Detective Ben
Description: Despite the title, this book is more accurately described as a thriller, rather than a mystery. In the opening pages Ben finds a dead man on a bridge and is soon whisked away from this crime scene by a lady in a limousine to a spooky and mysterious flat. Ben has been mistaken for a murderous criminal who has been hired to perform some unspecified but nefarious and presumably fatal act. But he is certainly not trusted and must constantly be on his guard against both the law and his new companions and simultaneously carry out the last request of the detective who got him into the affair. Under constant threat of exposure he is soon wending his way northwards towards unknown encounters aided only by his wits in an old fashioned Edgar Wallace style adventure.