Leo Bruce, Author Academy Chicago Publishers $10.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-89733-229-3
When famous mystery writer Lilliane Bomberger is found deadburied up to her neck on the beach behind her houseCarolus Deene, schoolmaster and amateur sleuth, is called upon to help the baffled police. Deene finds it difficult to pry information from
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Leo Bruce, Author Academy Chicago Publishers $15 (192p) ISBN 978-0-89733-159-3
This Carolus Deene mystery opens unpromisingly with a madman planning a perfect, motiveless murder. Things pick up, however, with the entrance of history teacher and amateur sleuth Deene. On questioning the witnesses and family of the late Ernest...
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Leo Bruce, Author Academy Chicago Publishers $21.95 (192p) 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...
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Leo Bruce. Academy Chicago, $14.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-89733-733-5
First published in 1974, the last entry in Bruce's long-running Carolus Deene series (At Death's Door, etc.) is perhaps best appreciated as a parody of the classic English murder mystery. When schoolmaster Carolus discovers the naked corpse of...
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Leo Bruce, Author, B. A. Pike, Introduction by Academy Chicago Publishers $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-89733-367-2
All but one of these 28 short-shorts by a pseudonymous master crime writer (really Rupert Croft-Cooke) originally appeared in the London Evening Standard between 1950 and 1956. Most capers cover five to seven pages and focus on plot puzzles; the...
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Luce Bruce, Author, Leo Bruce, Author Academy Chicago Publishers $5.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-89733-175-3
Mild-mannered, middle-aged widower Carolus Deene sometimes manages to do a bit of sleuthing while engaged in his principal labors as senior history master at Queen's School, Newminster. In this mystery, Deene is advised by the formidable Mrs. Chalk...
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