Anyone know this book?

JiMMy 85

I have posted on a few forums hoping someone could come up with a title, but it's never happened.

I read a book at secondary school. It was about a young boy who overhears a conspiracy of some sort. I think he hears it in a greasy spoon cafe. Nobody believes him so he tries to solve the mystery himself, but the criminals get onto him so he has to go on the run.

I remember he catches a train, and he has to jump from it. From there he ends up in some sort of shed, where he opens a can of beans with a knife.

That's all I remember. This thread may sink like a stone, but it's worth asking cos I'd LOVE to know what this book was called. I don't even want to read it again, I just want to solve the mystery of the book title.

shirty5

Fly Fishing by JR Hartley

Leuth

It sounds kind of Secret Seven tbh

LennyLowrent

Publish it and wait...

Lincsaddick

how long ago did you read it

MrOneLung

was it a school book or just one that you read yourself?

smudge7946

Emil and the detectives

JaShea99

Are you sure this wasn’t a dream?

MrOneLung

smudge7946 said:

Emil and the detectives

Good shout.

Jimmy, was the book set in france ?

letthegoodtimesroll

smudge7946 said:

Emil and the detectives

MrOneLung said:

smudge7946 said:

Emil and the detectives

Good shout.

Jimmy, was the book set in france ?

It’s not that book - the plot is all wrong. And it’s set in Berlin

Stig

Might be worth asking on a book website, perhaps Good Reads?

Fumbluff

Stig said:

Might be worth asking on a book website, perhaps Good Reads?

Yeah, we only ever talk and answer questions about Charlton on here.
Everything else is just guff...








PS Is it the machine gunners? Where’ya going now?

NorthheathAddick

Fumbluff said:

Stig said:

Might be worth asking on a book website, perhaps Good Reads?

Yeah, we only ever talk and answer questions about Charlton on here.
Everything else is just guff...








PS Is it the machine gunners? Where’ya going now?

Loved that book...

JiMMy 85

Totally forgot that I posted this thread.

I read it in the early 90s. Pretty sure it was set in London but not certain.

Thanks @stig, I’ll look at some book forums.