Case for Three Detectives

A Sergeant Beef Mystery

By Leo Bruce

Sergeant Beef Series

FICTION

240 Pages, 5 x 8

Formats: Trade Paper, Mobipocket

Trade Paper, $14.95 (CA $17.95) (US $14.95)

Publication Date: August 2005

ISBN 9780897330336

Rights: WOR

Chicago Review Press (Aug 2005)
Academy Chicago Publishers

Price:	$14.95

Overview

Possibly the most unusual mystery ever written. A murder is committed, behind closed doors, in bizarre circumstances. Three amateur detectives take the case: Lord Simon Plimsoll, Monsieur Amer Picon, and Monsignor Smith (in whom discerning readers will note likeness to some familiar literary figures). Each arrives at his own brilliant solution, startling in its originality, ironclad in its logic. Meanwhile Sergean Beef sits contemptuously in the background. "But, " says Sergean Beef, "I know who done it!"

Reviews

"... an amusing tour de force." — New York Times Book Review

Author Biography

Leo Bruce was the pen name of Rupert Croft-Cooke, who wrote more than twenty highly-praised mysteries featuring Carlous Deene. He also wrote eight mysteries featuring Sgt. William Beef, a cockney police detective who invariably "knows who done it." Croft-Cooke died in 1980.

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