The Backward Boy

Denton #5

by Kenneth M. Cameron

Never do favors. Hasn’t Denton learned this by now? But love will make chumps of us all, and for love of Janet Striker, he is making inquiries on behalf of the extremely tedious Mrs. Snokes. Her husband, she declares, is innocent of the hideous charges made against him. The newspapers, however, think They have dubbed him the “Barnsbury Butcher.” Worse yet, for love of an old mate Denton has taken on a chore for the man’s brattish son, entangled in a shameful liaison with a woman of beauty, spirit, and the ability to wreck his tidy little upper-class future. Hell’s bells, forget about the “do no favors” strategy; the best path may be “do not love.” But try telling that to Denton...

Genres: Historical Mystery

342 pages, Paperback

First published June 6, 2013

About the author

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Kenneth Cameron, AKA George Bartram, is the author or co-author of more than thirty books, including historical novels and novels of espionage, a critical history of the African safari, and an award-winning analysis of films about Africa (Africa on Film - MLA Independent Scholars Award). He has had plays produced Off- and Offf-Off Broadway and on the London Fringe. His first publications were two poems in the Best Poems of 1955. He lives part of the year in the woods of New York State’s Adirondacks, part in a small city in the South.

Together with his son, Christian Cameron, he wrote a series of military thrillers published under the name Gordon Kent.