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

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If you take my advice and you don't like these, skip the rest of the review, this book is not for you and you have at least read a classic. Sometimes I feel like the errant child who is chided to do what he is told and not ask so many questions. For its time though, it was probably pretty daring to have a female lead with enough gumption to tangle with the sorts of characters pitted against Hugo and to take a hand in a dangerous and breathtaking ending.

Wentworth given Benbow Smith the number of adventures that were given to Miss Silver, I feel certain that he would have proved every bit as ingenious. 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. What Hugo sees in this fluff-head is difficult to understand, and the romance stalls a bit as we trip over the trope of dopey female characters. Will Hugo take the high road and risk himself for truth and justice or will he chose to leave behind the dark mystery before it overtakes and destroys him?The use of errant to mean “complete; downright; utter”, and arrant to mean “roving around; wandering”, is obsolete.

Smith predicts that a theft will be arranged which will allow the plans to be sold without tarnishing the culprit’s reputation. As they travel from land to land in pursuit of the Archon, Filidor is exposed to perils and concepts totally foreign to his life in Olkney. Miss Silver and Miss Marple "speak" to me and I thoroughly enjoy each one, even if the individual books may have a few problems here and there. I am the author of The Pocket Detective, The Pocket Detective 2 and How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel.rounded up)- This was a spy book, with a plot I am sure I have seen before - a smarter-than-he-looks young man is hired as a low level secretary, to be the fall guy when a brilliant English aeronautical designer wants to sell his plans to the Russians. Fool Errant was originally published in 1929, and introduced the eccentric, elderly series character of Benbow Smith.