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  • CASE WITH ROPES AND RINGS
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    CASE WITH ROPES AND RINGS
    LEO BRUCE
    The coroner's jury found that the boy hanged in the school gymnasium had killed himself, but Sergeant Beef disagrees. He takes a job as a temporary school caretaker, abetted by the reluctant Townsend, Beef's biographer, whose brother is a master at the school. Beef's methods entail endless games of darts and beer all around in the local pub, much to Townsend's dismay of course....

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  • NECK AND NECK
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    NECK AND NECK
    LEO BRUCE
    Lionel Townsend is Sergeant Beef's priggish biographer, most often found exasperated by Beef's boorish manners. But now Townsend's aunt has been poisoned. Townsend must turn to Beef for assistance—he has surprisingly found himself the prime suspect of the murder. When an unpopular publisher is found hanged in the Cotswolds, it seems utterly unrelated. Beef, in his inimitable wa...

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  • CASE WITH 4 CLOWNS
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    CASE WITH 4 CLOWNS
    LEO BRUCE
    A murder is yet to be committed—that much is certain—but who will be the victim? And who will be the murderer? It is Sgt. Beef's job to discover these facts, if he can, in time to prevent the deed from being done. But when he reaches the small traveling circus where the murder is to take place, he finds that practically everyone there is seething with hatred, each has a motive ...

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  • DEATH IN THE MIDDLE WATCH
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    DEATH IN THE MIDDLE WATCH
    LEO BRUCE
    Carolus Deene is enjoying himself on a holiday cruise. On the first night aboard the Summer Queen, he hears a shout of "Man Overboard!" From that point on to the moment of Deene's unexpected revelations, the reader will find that unique mixture of artless fun and grim terror Leo Bruce devotees savor. ...

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  • DEATH IN ALBERT PARK
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    DEATH IN ALBERT PARK
    LEO BRUCE
    In a gloomy London suburb, a modern Jack the Ripper stalks at night, killing at random with brutal knife thrusts from behind. Three women fall victim, and the terrorized residents wait to see who will be next. ...

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  • CASE WITH NO CONCLUSION
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    CASE WITH NO CONCLUSION
    LEO BRUCE
    Once again Lionel Townsend, Beef's Dr. Watson, faithfully records the redoubtable Sergeant's escapades. Beef has left the Braxham police and gone into business for himself. Beef gets a client: Stewart Ferrars, who has been arrested for the Sydenham Murder. Beef is hired by Stewart's brother Peter to prove Stewart is innocent of the murder of Dr. Benson, who has been found stabb...

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  • CASE FOR THREE DETECTIVES
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    CASE FOR THREE DETECTIVES
    LEO BRUCE
    Possibly the most unusual mystery ever written. A murder is committed, behind closed doors, in bizarre circumstances. Three amateur detectives take the case: Lord Simon Plimsoll, Monsieur Amer Picon, and Monsignor Smith (in whom discerning readers will note likeness to some familiar literary figures). Each arrives at his own brilliant solution, startling in its originality, iro...

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  • CASE FOR SERGEANT BEEF
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    CASE FOR SERGEANT BEEF
    LEO BRUCE
    In the cleverly plotted Case for Sergeant Beef, Mr. Wellington Chickle, a retired watchmaker, plans the perfect murder, but he chooses the wrong victim. The dead man's sister refuses to accept the idea that her brother committed suicide and calls in the unprepossessing Sgt. Beef who unravels the plot with the aid of the local police. Meanwhile, Townsend, Beef’s indefatigable ch...

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  • DEATH OF A BOVVER BOY
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    DEATH OF A BOVVER BOY
    LEO BRUCE
    Billed as “the ugliest case that Carolus Deene ever chose to investigate,” Leo Bruce’s Death of a Bovver Boy finds the redoubtable schoolmaster-turned-detective involved in yet another mystery murder—this time among teenage outcasts and skinheads in rural 1970s England. When Carolus’s housekeeper, stoic Mrs. Stick, announces one evening that her husband has seen the naked body ...

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  • DEATH AT HALLOWS END
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    DEATH AT HALLOWS END
    LEO BRUCE
    Gentleman Detective Carolus Deene, the schoolmaster created by Bruce and featured in so many of his other books, has his work cut out for him this time. A respectable solicitor has vanished into thin air in the remote village of Hallows End. Deene senses foul play, and when he goes on the hunt for the missing lawyer, the wealthy client himself suffers a heart attack in what pro...

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  • CASE WITHOUT A CORPSE
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    CASE WITHOUT A CORPSE
    LEO BRUCE
    This is one of Sgt. Beef's most interesting and perplexing cases. It involves a murder, but one in which no body can be found. Young Rogers announces to Beef and others assembled in a local pub that he has committed a murder—then takes his own life. But where is the victim? How did it happen? "I always supposed," says Beef. "a murder case started with a corpse, and then you had...

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  • DEATH OF A COMMUTER
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    DEATH OF A COMMUTER
    LEO BRUCE
    "Five men occupied their usual places in a first-class carriage, but the sixth place was empty..." It is most unusual for the sixth man, Mr. Parador, to be late. The five commuters are wondering what happened to him, when a strange-looking man enters the compartment, dressed in black and wearing dark glasses. When he is told that the sixth seat is taken, he replies, in a deep s...

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  • DEAD MAN'S SHOES
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    DEAD MAN'S SHOES
    LEO BRUCE
    Everyone knew there'd been a murder, everyone knew who the murderer was, and when this murderer committed suicide by jumping overboard from the cargo boat Saragossa, they thought "Good riddance." Everyone, that is, except Carolus Deene. ...

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  • DEATH WITH BLUE RIBBON
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    DEATH WITH BLUE RIBBON
    LEO BRUCE
    Carolus Deene becomes involved in his latest adventure when a famous restaurateur is threatened by a protection racketeer and a well-known writer of cookbooks is murdered under extraordinary circumstances. ...

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  • FURIOUS OLD WOMEN
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    FURIOUS OLD WOMEN
    LEO BRUCE
    Another Carolus Deene novel, this mystery in particular is considered one of Bruce's cleverest and best plotted. ...

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  • JACK ON THE GALLOWS TREE
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    JACK ON THE GALLOWS TREE
    LEO BRUCE
    The dead bodies of two elderly ladies are discovered; both had been strangled. Each is found lying full-length, clasping in her hand the stem of a Madonna lily. ...

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  • DIE ALL, DIE MERRILY
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    DIE ALL, DIE MERRILY
    LEO BRUCE
    Richard Hoysden's body is discovered in his country flat, a revolver beside him, and a bullet through the head, apparently a suicide. Missing from the room is a tape of Hoysden's last moments on which he confesses ti the murder of a young woman. Lady Drombone, a member of Parliament and the dead man's aunt, hires Carolus Deene to help suppress the evidence. He must reconstruct ...

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  • NOTHING LIKE BLOOD
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    NOTHING LIKE BLOOD
    LEO BRUCE
    His old friend Helena Gort calls on Carolus Deene to come to Cat's Cradle, a seaside guest house and find out about two deaths judged respectively "natural causes" and "suicide." There is no doubt in Helena's mind that something sinister has happened and something very unpleasant is brewing. She is right. ...

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  • SUCH IS DEATH
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    SUCH IS DEATH
    LEO BRUCE
    Someone very, very clever planned this murder: the place, a remote shelter on the promenade at Selby-on-Sea; the occasion, a blustery evening in late November; the victim, somebody ready-made for a crack-of-doom from a coal hammer. Diary notes indicate someone had been planning the "ideal" murder, one which no police, no detective could solve. The murderer's gratification would...

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  • DEATH AT ST. ASPREY'S SCHOOL
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    DEATH AT ST. ASPREY'S SCHOOL
    LEO BRUCE
    There are strange goings-on at St. Asprey's, an expensive boys' preparatory school: footsteps in passages at night . . . strange lights . . . rabbits with battered skulls. Carolus Deene has some spine-tingling experiences before he solves the mystery. ...

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  • OUR JUBILEE IS DEATH
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    OUR JUBILEE IS DEATH
    LEO BRUCE
    Walking on the sand before breakfast, Carolus Deene's cousin Fay, who was staying on the Suffolk coast, had come upon the head of Lilliane Bomberger, the celebrated and universally detested novelist. The body was buried in the sand with only the head protruding; at least one tide had washed over it. Before this frustrating case ends, three murders are committed. This is vintage...

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  • DEATH ON ALLHALLOWE'EN
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    DEATH ON ALLHALLOWE'EN
    LEO BRUCE
    Carolus Deene is summoned to a small Kentish village where the presence of a possible coven of witches lends an eerie aura to the presumed "accidental" death of a young local boy a year ago on Hallowe'en. Before his work is completed, Carolus Deene has the answers to this and two other deaths. ...

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  • COLD BLOOD
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    COLD BLOOD
    LEO BRUCE
    Cosmo Ducrow was a wealthy heir known to friends and family for his friendly though reclusive nature. When he is found dead on his grounds, bludgeoned by a croquet mallet, the evidence damningly points to his nephew. The deceased's closest confidant, Theo Gray, however, suspects a setup. Sergeant Beef is called upon to find the truth of who had the access and motive to so vicio...

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  • CASE WITH ROPES AND RINGS
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    CASE WITH ROPES AND RINGS
    LEO BRUCE
    The coroner’s jury found that the boy hanged in the school gymnasium had killed himself, but Sergeant Beef disagrees. He takes a job as a temporary school caretaker, abetted by the reluctant Townsend, Beef’s biographer, whose brother is a master at the school. Beef’s methods entail endless games of darts and beer all around in the local pub, much to Townsend’s dismay of course....

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  • NECK AND NECK
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    NECK AND NECK
    LEO BRUCE
    Lionel Townsend is Sergeant Beef's priggish biographer, most often found exasperated by Beef’s boorish manners. But now Townsend’s aunt has been poisoned. Townsend must turn to Beef for assistance—he has surprisingly found himself the prime suspect of the murder. When an unpopular publisher is found hanged in the Cotswolds, it seems utterly unrelated. Beef, in his inimitable wa...

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  • A BONE AND A HANK OF HAIR
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    A BONE AND A HANK OF HAIR
    LEO BRUCE
    Carolus Deene, history master at Queen's School, Newminster, manages on the side to dabble in the art of gentlemanly detective work. In Leo Bruce's beloved A Bone and a Hank of Hair, Deene is approached by Mrs. Chalk, who is convinced her heiress cousin has been murdered. The suspect is, of course, Mr. Rathbone, the lady's wily widower. On the way to the truth, Deene encounters...

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