
Deathman, Do Not Follow Me
By Jay Bennett
1968
First Published
3.61
Average Rating
144
Number of Pages
A high school boy who knows the identity of the thieves who stole a valuable Van Gogh painting from the Brooklyn Museum enters a world of murder and betrayal
Avg Rating
3.61
Number of Ratings
85
5 STARS
27%
4 STARS
27%
3 STARS
31%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
5%
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Author

Jay Bennett
Author · 9 books
Jay Bennett (born in New York City, December 24, 1912, died June 27, 2009 in Cherry Hill, NJ) was an American author and two-time winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Bennett won the Edgar for Best Juvenile novel in 1974 and 1975, for The Long Black Coat (Delacorte Press) and The Dangling Witness (Delacorte Press), respectively. He was the first author to win an Edgar in consecutive years. A third book, The Skeleton Man (Franklin Watts), was nominated in 1987. Bennett is best known among English teachers and young adults for these and other juvenile mysteries, like Deathman, Do Not Follow Me (Scholastic).