Danger Calling: A Benbow Smith Mystery: 2 (The Benbow Smith Mysteries)

How would you like to die for your country? asked Benbow Smith languidly.Now that Marian has broken their engagement Lindsay Trevor finds danger welcome even though it means dyeing his hair red and impersonating his cousin Froth as Restows secretary.Who is this Restow huge good-natured - is he fabulously rich or desperately poor? Is he the mysterious Vulture that master of deceit and manipulation? And there is Restows wife the big tempestuous snake-charmer Gloria; Dalton the lean black spider-like librarian and Elsie Manning Froths friend who is afraid - of what? When Marian comes back into his life most unexpectedly Lindsay enters a desperate struggle against the Vulture with Marians life at stake.Danger Calling was originally published in 1931 and was the second novel to feature the series character of Benbow Smith. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.When I pick up a book by Patricia Wentworth I think now to enjoy myself - and I always do. Mary Dell Daily Mirror