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The Battling Prophet

1956

Ben Wickham had developed a system of such accurate weather prophecy, that farmers, forseeing a drought, sacked labour and refrained from buying phosphates and machinery.

This brought him many enemies, for governments were faced with unemployment and big companies with unsold stock on their hands.

When Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte learns that he has died - apparently of the hoo-jahs (D.T.s) - he suspects murder, and, acting as a 'temporary private eye', he follows the trail till he comes to the heart of the mystery.

from the 1960 Penguin edition