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Anyone know this book?

JiMMy 85
JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,194
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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.

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  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,231
    Fly Fishing by JR Hartley
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    It sounds kind of Secret Seven tbh
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,705
    Publish it and wait...
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    how long ago did you read it
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,856
    was it a school book or just one that you read yourself?
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    Emil and the detectives
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,458
    Are you sure this wasn’t a dream?
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,856
    smudge7946 said:

    Emil and the detectives

    Good shout.

    Jimmy, was the book set in france ?
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,621
    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
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Might be worth asking on a book website, perhaps Good Reads?
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  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,127
    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
    NorthheathAddick Posts: 4,018
    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
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,194
    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.

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