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No. 17

By: J. Jefferson Farjeon
Narrated by: David John
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Summary

The first story featuring Ben, the lovable, humorous ex-sailor and down-at-heels rascal who can't help running into trouble.

Ben is back home from the Merchant Navy, penniless as usual and looking for digs in fog-bound London. Taking shelter in an abandoned old house, he stumbles across a dead body - and scarpers. Running into a detective, Gilbert Fordyce, the reluctant Ben is persuaded to return to the house and investigate the mystery of the corpse - which promptly disappears!

The vacant No.17 is the rendezvous for a gang of villains, and the cowardly Ben finds himself in the thick of thieves with no way of escape.

Ben's first adventure, No.17, began life in the 1920s as an internationally successful stage play and was immortalised on film by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock.

Its author, J. Jefferson Farjeon, wrote more than 60 crime thrillers, eight featuring Ben the tramp, his most popular character.

©1926 Estate of J. Jefferson Farjeon (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers
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Critic reviews

"There may be contemporary story writers who are equals of Mr Farjeon in the ability to put the reader swiftly and wholly under the spell of the eerie and uncanny, but they have not come within our reading." ( New York World)
"Jefferson Farjeon writes thrills enhanced by good writing, good humour, and good character sketches." ( Sunday Times)

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  • 18-09-16

very repetitive and dull story

This is very old fashioned and not in a charming way. Condescending to the tramp hero and very repetitive writing. Not much suspense or mystery either. Disappointing.

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