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A Carolus Deene Mystery
By Leo Bruce
Carolus Deene Series
FICTION
160 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5
Formats: Trade Paper, Mobipocket
MOBIPOCKET, $9.99 (US $9.99) (CA $12.99)
ISBN 9781613732496
Rights: WOR
Chicago Review Press (Nov 2014)
Academy Chicago Publishers
Overview
Carolus Deene’s housekeeper, the stoic Mrs. Stick, announces one evening that her husband has seen the body of a youth lying in a ditch with his hair shorn and his wrists slashed. Carolus knows that he has, at last, met a supreme challenge to test his powers of deduction. The redoubtable schoolmaster-turned-detective then becomes involved in a lively series of adventures infiltrating
Reviews
“Typical of [Leo Bruce’s] polished style are those mysteries solved by Carolus Deene, a haughty history schoolmaster whose ratiocinative instincts quicken in atmospheric settings.” —New York Times Book Review on the Carolus Deene series
“Even the seasoned mystery reader . . . will recognize Leo Bruce as a master of the genre.” —Publishers Weekly on the Carolus Deene series
Author Biography
Leo Bruce is the nom de plume of Rupert Croft-Cooke, who wrote some 125 mysteries, biographies, and memoirs. He died in 1980.May we also suggest...
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