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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
A bone and a hank of hair A bone and a hank of hair 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… OL10507990W
Jack on the gallows tree Jack on the gallows tree 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 … OL10508000W
Die all, die merrily 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… OL1161982W
Our jubilee is death Our jubilee is death 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 … OL1162007W
Death at St. Asprey's School 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 .. a face in the window ...a puppy … OL4318144W
Such is death Such is death 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… OL4318149W