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The House Opposite (Detective Club Crime Classics),Used
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From the Collins Crime Club archive, the first original novel to feature Ben the Cockney tramp, the unorthodox detective character created by J. Jefferson Farjeon, author of Mystery in White.Strange things are happening in the untenanted houses of Jowle Street. There are unaccountable creakings and weird knockings on the door of No.29, where a homeless exsailor has taken up residence. But even stranger things are happening in the House Opposite, from where a beautiful woman in an evening gown brings Ben a mysterious message; and worsethe offer of a job!Ben the passing tramp was immortalised on film by Alfred Hitchcock in Number 17, based on a popular twenties stage play and novelisation by journalistturnedauthor Joe Jefferson Farjeon. The House Opposite (1931) was the first fulllength original novel to feature Ben, a reluctant downatheels Cockney sleuth, who went on to feature in six more successful detective thrillers from 1931 to 1952.This Detective Story Club classic includes an introduction by H. R. F. Keating, author of the awardwinning Inspector Ghote mysteries, which first appeared in the Crime Clubs 1985 Disappearing Detectives series.
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