cover image Death in the Middle Watch

Death in the Middle Watch

Leo Bruce. Academy Chicago Publishers, $21.95 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-89733-523-2

Readers looking for stylish, old-fashioned fun will find it in the late Leo Bruce's Death in the Middle Watch: A Carolus Deene Mystery, set aboard an English cruise ship on the Mediterranean. A man overboard and a subsequent murder keep gentleman sleuth Deene, his fellow passengers and the crew gossiping and guessing until the ship's return to London, where Deene can take suitable action. .