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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Neck and neck Neck and neck 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… OL10508008W
Case for Three Detectives (Croft-Cooke, Rupert, Sgt. Beef Mystery.) Case for Three Detectives (Croft-Cooke, Rupert, Sgt. Beef Mystery.) 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… OL4318122W
Case for Sergeant Beef Case for Sergeant Beef 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… OL4318140W
Cold Blood Cold Blood 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… OL4318142W