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

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crossexaminingcrime: We have the love interest, though thankfully the woman although a bit of twerp is bearable. Ultimately she redeems herself at the end, as during the middle of the book I think both me and Ross wanted to slap her, as she finds him too dictatorial when he advises sensible decisions e.g. Let’s not make lots of noise to attract the bad guys’ attentions. […] He has made his living as a writer all of his adult life, first as a journalist in newspapers, then as a staff speechwriter to the Canadian Ministers of Justice and Environment, and, since 1979, as a freelance corporate and political speechwriter in British Columbia. Ambrose Minstrel, the inventor, is undoubtedly eccentric. But even his oddities cannot account for the strange events at Meade House. Young Hugo Ross, Minstrel’s new secretary, feels that all the dark happenings centre somehow on himself – cryptic remarks and veiled glances between Minstrel and his assistant, stealthy footsteps in the dead of night, the offer of a small fortune for the worthless field glasses. And then there is the unknown girl who had called from the dark, the rest of her statement swallowed by the night? But in spite of all his caution, Hugo Ross is drawn into a despicable plot involving government intrigue and espionage. With his own life on the line, how much is he willing to risk for his country? from Vulgar Latin iterāre (compare Late Latin itinerāre, itinerāri ( “ to travel, voyage ” )), from Latin iter ( “ a route (including a journey, trip; a course; a path; a road) ” ), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- ( “ to go ” ); and errant, adj. (and n.)”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “ errant, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Fool Errant was originally published in 1929, and introduced the eccentric, elderly series character of Benbow Smith. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. Patricia Wentworth's classic mystery stories are a bit of a cultivated taste, but I am hooked. They tend to be gentle romances as much as period mysteries, but I love spending time in her world. Not my favorite Wentworth (I'm partial to the Miss Silvers) but..... The lead ingenue character is cursed by the name "Loveday" so what can she be but a semi-total ding-dong. I spent a lot of her scenes wanting to give her a sound shaking. The brave young Loveday and the vampish Madame de Lara are the two poles of womanhood in these espionage novels. Loveday is pure and childlike, prone to mad acts of bravery followed by weeping on Hugo's manly shoulder. She nearly gets sold into white slavery due to trusting the wrong people. I mean, reely. Madame de Lara is a vamp, a scamp, and a bit of a tramp. She is not so much evil as greedy. from Latin errantem, the accusative feminine or masculine singular of errāns ( “ straying, errant; wandering ” ), the present active participle of errō ( “ to rove, wander; to get lost, go astray; to err, wander from the truth ” ), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- ( “ to flow ” ).Political intrigue and industrial espionage are brewing in Britain’s Foreign Office in this thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries

The villains come from Central Casting. Someone phoned Baddies R Us and requested one evil scientist, one dark and dangerous brute, and a red-headed Bolshie. Fantastic! A fun and humorous picaresque tale set on Old Earth concerning a spoiled young man and his older and no-nonsense travelling companion. Each chapter is headed by a story fragment which relates a tale set in Old Earth's history and is great fun in itself. Each chapter is also a complete story in itself, while also driving the whole tale forward. errant”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN. Out of the two I have read Silence in Court is the most puzzle like. Fool Errant is definitely a thriller, so if you are looking for a puzzle focused story, you’re not going to find it there. Wentworth’s writing style seems more creative and she seems more willing to try new things out in her non-Miss Silver books, which I have enjoyed and she does tell a good story. I think it depends on what you want to get out of reading these books.

Cover versions of What Am I Gonna Do written by Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield | SecondHandSongs". secondhandsongs.com . Retrieved 2021-08-27. Desperate for employment, Hugo ignores her warning and takes the job. He’s barely moved into Meade House when a message from Loveday Leigh is hand-delivered: He must leave immediately and burn the letter. When they finally meet again at Waterloo Station, Loveday is not the mysterious woman Hugo remembers. Odd happenings continue, and he enlists the help of the esteemed Benbow Smith, an enigmatic figure connected to London’s Foreign Office. Soon Hugo is caught up in an undercover plot involving governmental intrigue, industrial espionage, and stolen military secrets. With his own life on the line, how much is he willing to risk for his country? Miss Silver, a retired governess-turned private detective, is sometimes compared to Jane Marple, the elderly detective created by Agatha Christie. She works closely with Scotland Yard, especially Inspector Frank Abbott and is fond of quoting the poet Tennyson. There is one fantastic quote I will put in here '...unrecalled technologies might be mined as if they were newfound discoveries....the outmoded only remains so until it becomes unremembered, after which it may justly return as the avante garde.'