One of the rarest mysteries in the author's Sergeant Beef series, Case with Four Clowns, which has only been published once in the US—more than fifty years ago - is now available in paperback for the
Carolus Deene is summoned to Suffolk to investigate the murder of Lillianne Bomberger, a writer of detective fiction, whose body was found buried in the sand in an upright position with only the head
When Ernest Rafter is murdered with a coal hammer in a seaside town, schoolmaster Carolus Deene becomes determined to solve the seemingly perfect crime
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 damn
Leo Bruce' s Death of a Bovver Boy, in which the redoubtable schoolmaster--turned--detective is involved in yet another mystery murder---this time among teenage outcasts and skinheads in rural 1970s E
In this “rousing mystery” (Booklist), 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 respect
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
Carolus Deene, an unassuming history teacher genuinely intrigued by the enigma of murder, is called upon to help track down the murderer responsible for the stabbing deaths of several women in a gloom
