![]() ![]() He’s a clever chap when it comes to science but a bit of an innocent when it comes to dealing with the world. It could revolutionise the textile industry. Ryder is a high school science teacher and part-time inventor and he’s come up with an invention that he thinks is pretty exciting. Obviously he’d like to stay alive after that as well, but surviving until Friday is the immediate priority. Ryder’s problem is that he needs to stay alive until the following Friday. A thin rather owlish individual named Edward Ryder. He is therefore very happy when a client turns up. His detective fiction included the series of Hooky Heffernan private eye mystery thrillers.īusiness hasn’t been too good for our narrator, Hooky Heffernan, and his betting on the ponies hasn’t been too successful recently either. He wrote at least 150 books in various genre. Laurence Meynell (1899-1989) was a British writer and he was one of those writers who had a long and successful career only to have his books disappear into oblivion after his death. The Frightened Man is a 1952 Hooky Heffernan private eye novel by Laurence Meynell. ![]()
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