J. Jefferson Farjeon

On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house....

Richard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning....

Amateur thief Ted Lyte has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies....

On a fine autumn weekend Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house, Bragley Court. Among the guests are an actress, a journalist, an artist and a mystery novelist....

Ben the tramp's uncanny knack of running into trouble is unsurpassed in the final crime thriller written for him by J. Jefferson Farjeon....

Ben the tramp, with his usual genius for trouble, runs into danger when he finds a dead body and decides to help out....

Ben the tramp, the awkward Cockney with no home and no surname, turns detective again - and runs straight into trouble....

Ben the tramp, self-confessed coward and ex-sailor, is back in the Merchant Service and shipwrecked in the Pacific....

With his usual knack of getting into trouble, Ben the tramp finds himself hunted by the law and the lawless in this breathless adventure....

Ben the tramp is back at sea, a stowaway bound for Spain in the company of a wanted man - the Hammersmith murderer....

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

Strange things are happening in the untenanted houses of Jowle Street....