Case with No Conclusion: A Sergeant Beef Mystery (Sergeant Beef Series) - Softcover

Bruce, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0897331184 ISBN 13: 9780897331180

Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1984

Synopsis

Once again Lionel Townsend, Beef's Dr. Watson, faithfully records the redoubtable Sergeant's escapades. Beef has left the Braxham police and gone into business for himself. Beef gets a client: Stewart Ferrars, who has been arrested for the Sydenham Murder. Beef is hired by Stewart's brother Peter to prove Stewart is innocent of the murder of Dr. Benson, who has been found stabbed in the throat in the library of Peter's gloomy Victorian mansion, The Cypresses. An ornamental dagger with Peter's fingerprints on it has been left on a table near the dead man's armchair.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"The facetious nature of Bruce's well-drawn characterizations and the unexpected conclusion enhance this thoughtfully rendered puzzler." — Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0897331184
• ISBN 13: 9780897331180
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288