Ben the tramp's uncanny knack of running into trouble is unsurpassed in the final crime thriller written for him by J Jefferson Farjeon On a grey afternoon he was destined never to forget Ben sat down on a park seat & proceeded to think not of cabbages & kings but of numbers lucky & unlucky But it wasn't Ben's lucky day or that of the nondescript-looking stranger sitting at the other end of the bench
- murdered before his very eyes! That was the prelude to the most uncomfortable & eventful twenty-four hours Ben had ever spent in an uncomfortable & eventful life J Jefferson Farjeon's famous Cockney character Ben who first appeared in No 17 & six other novels was never so richly humorous or so absurdly heroic as in this his last hair-raising adventure taking place at No 19 Billiter Road