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A bone and a hank of hair
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Leo Bruce |
Gentleman Detective Carolus Deene is called to investigate the disappearance of Mrs. Rathbone, and perhaps the second Mrs. Rathbone, and the third. With little more than the title clues to aid him, D… |
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Jack on the gallows tree
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Leo Bruce |
Within the space of an hour or two the dead bodies of two elderly ladies, Miss Sophia Carew and Mrs. Westmacott, were discovered in the vicinity of the town of Buddington-on-the-Hill; both women had … |
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Neck and neck
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Leo Bruce |
Lionel Townsend, Beef's toffee-nosed biographer, finds himself a prime suspect when his aunt in Hastings is poisoned. At the same time, an unpopular publisher is found hanged in the Cotswolds, appare… |
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Die all, die merrily
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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… |
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Our jubilee is death
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Leo Bruce |
At the end of the Summer term, Carolus Deene, amateur detective *cum* history master of Queen's School, Newminster, is summoned to Suffolk to investigate the circumstances attending the discovery of … |
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Case for Three Detectives (Croft-Cooke, Rupert, Sgt. Beef Mystery.)
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Leo Bruce |
*Case for Three Detectives* is 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… |
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Case for Sergeant Beef
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Leo Bruce |
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 it is suicide and calls in the unpreposs… |
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Cold Blood
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Leo Bruce |
At first there seemed to be no doubt who had killed Cosmo Ducrow, the recluse millionaire, with a croquet mallet, but the police are reluctant to arrest the obvious suspect. The family calls in Serge… |
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Death at St. Asprey's School
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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 .. a face in the window ...a puppy … |
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Such is death
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Leo Bruce |
Leo Bruce's brilliantly ingenious new detective story opens with an extract from a diary: notes made by someone planning the perfect, the ideal murder — the one which no police, no detective, could s… |
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