The Wonderful Demise of Benjamin Arnold Guppy - by Gina Collia-Suzuki

[Gina Collia-Suzuki]

The Wonderful Demise of Benjamin Arnold Guppy
by Gina Collia-Suzuki

Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: Nezu Press (25 Dec 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0955979617
ISBN-13: 978-0955979613

Benjamin Arnold Guppy loved turnips. He loved eating them, but most of all he loved throwing them. He also loved money and pain... extorting a lot of the former and causing an equal amount of the latter. A foul, sour-faced old swindler with a penchant for clucking like a chicken and more than a passing interest in the local postman, he was determined to get his hands on his neighbours' money, regardless of the cost. As it turned out, the price was his life.

'The Wonderful Demise of Benjamin Arnold Guppy' is a tale of blackmail, turnip tossing, and the cold-blooded murder of an incredibly irritating old man.

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[A. F. Stewart]

A story about a turnip tossing, chicken clucking swindler. You definitely have me curious.

[Gina Collia-Suzuki]

Benjamin Guppy's not averse to howling like a dog when the mood takes him too. The book's inspired by my own experiences with nuisance neighbours, and quite a few people have been surprised to find out how much of what's in the book actually took place... I didn't really kill anyone of course.

[A. F. Stewart]

I just started reading the book, but goodness I hope your neighbours weren't this bad.

[Gina Collia-Suzuki]

Pretty much everything that happens in the book is what happened in real life, so I'm afraid that the people who inspired the creation of Ben Guppy and his wife were just as bad. In fact, I think they were worse.