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

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Born in Liverpool, his family moved to Canada when he was five years old. Married since late 1960s, he has three grown sons. He is currently relocated to Britain. He is a former director of the Federation of British Columbia Writers.

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.' Please read chapter one as I did and had to borrow this book immediately (actually I just started it and said, 'well that's how it goes'): http://www.twbookmark.com/books/43/04...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. Do You Really Love Me Too (Fool's Errand)" was released with the B-side "What Am I Gonna Do", a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, first recorded by Sedaka for his debut album Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits, but was first released as a single by Jimmy Clanton. [6] This may be a Golden Age book, but the book itself is perhaps bronze, or tin. Successive illogical happenings, the flightiest girl ever, a hero cast in the bumbling-but-ultimately-triumphant Brit mold, a fake femme fatale, and an untenable plot leave you with the impression that what you're reading is more a comic book than anything else.

William Safire( 22 January 2006),“ On Language: Arrant Nonsense”, in The New York Times Magazine‎ [1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-08. A charming little novel that gets right to the point. Full of perilous twists and turns, one watches as a young man named Filidor travels across a mysterious world with a well-traveled companion, turning himself from a young man of bored leisure into a capable man of action. The heroine can be pretty annoying in a 'silly little woman' way at times (the internalised misogyny of the great Golden Age women crime writers is truly a spectacle), but in fairness, this is mostly while the hero has failed to tell her what's going on, and she ends up being plot-crucial and acting with great sense, so points for that. A pleasure.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. […] 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. A week after Chandler's version was released in the UK, English singer Billy Fury released his own version, titled "Do You Really Love Me Too (Fool's Errand)", as a single, which peaked at number 13 on the Record Retailer Top 50. [5] Release and reception [ edit ]