Benjamin Bennett (1907–1985) was a well known South African crime writer.
[1] He was born in London, England and emigrated with his family to Kimberley, South Africa, in 1912.
Bennett’s prodigious output of books reflects a close involvement, as crime reporter, both at the crime scene and in the courtroom, where his professional life regularly took him, pen and notebook in hand.
[2] He is credited with having posed the most plausible scenarios for enduring murder mysteries, such as that of Bubbles Schroeder.
[3] Bennett’s books include:[4] He also ghost-wrote Looking At My Heart (1968), the biography of Philip Blaiberg.