Carolus Deene Series
FICTION
160 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5
Formats: Trade Paper, Mobipocket
Trade Paper, $14.95 (US $14.95) (CA $17.95)
Publication Date: November 2014
ISBN 9780897337335
Rights: WOR
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
“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