Fool Errant: A Benbow Smith Mystery: 1 (The Benbow Smith Mysteries)

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the hero is more stupid and earnest than one can believe, the heroine superficial, fluttery and dim, the secondary characters caricatures, the evil villains too. Definitions and other text are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

His smartest move is to go to Benbow Collingwood Horatio Smith, uncle-in-law to his sister, for advice. The societies the protagonist encounters exhibit a Vancian variety, each acting according to its strictures yet evolving and thriving. Overall this is a very action packed novel, which is at once familiar and unexpected and my only serious niggle is that the ending is a little too rushed and there are the odd gushy moments. Smith predicts that a theft will be arranged which will allow the plans to be sold without tarnishing the culprit’s reputation. errant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language ], 2012.There's no killing here, just an espionage McGuffin ("the plans", "the secret processes", "the formula"), but otherwise it's what one expects. Uumlber den AutorrnrnPatricia Wentworth was born Dora Amy Elles in India in 1877 (not 1878 as has sometimes been stated).

While wordy at times, the book is a great, short read that makes for a nice bit of quiet evening leisure. They are Classic older style mysteries about an England that no longer exists - any one who loves Agatha Christie type books should try these. Fool Errant (1929) begins with Hugo Ross applying for a secretarial job with the inventor Ambrose Minstrel at his home, Meade House. Like the Miss Silver series, the purported detective in this first book of the Benbow Smith series is mostly MIA. William Safire( 22 January 2006),“ On Language: Arrant Nonsense”, in The New York Times Magazine‎ [1], New York, N.

Matthew Hughes has composed a book Fool's Errant that has not only taken a million tiny men to tear my brain to pieces seen under a gold lens, he has also stacked each cell with gunpowder and blown my mind to bits.