Such Is Death (A Carolus Deene Mystery) - Softcover

Leo Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0897331605 ISBN 13: 9780897331609

Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1986

Synopsis

Someone very, very clever planned this murder: the place, a remote shelter on the promenade at Selby-on-Sea; the occasion, a blustery evening in late November; the victim, somebody ready-made for a crack-of-doom from a coal hammer. Diary notes indicate someone had been planning the "ideal" murder, one which no police, no detective could solve. The murderer's gratification would be wholly cerebral, a triumph of mind over matter. However, the murderer had not counted on the clever, tenacious, unpredictable mind of that unique schoolmaster, Carolus Deene.

About this title

About the Author:

Leo Bruce is the nom de plume of Rupert Croft-Cooke, who wrote some 125 mysteries, biographies and memoirs. He died in 1980. There are twenty-two mysteries featuring Deene, of which Academy Chicago has already published eleven. Death at Hallows End starts the new hardcover series. The remaining novels will be published over the next several seasons. First published in 1964, Death at Hallows End—like all Carolus Deene novels--appears in the U.S. for the first time under an American imprint.

From Publishers Weekly:

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 Rafter, Deene uncovers more motives than he can handle. Did one of Rafter's prominent family do in the black sheep? Was it the revenge of a war veteran, who had suffered when Rafter collaborated with the Japanese in Burma? Or might the murder have occurred during a simple robbery? Bruce is particularly good at sketching dank, foggy Selby-on-Sea and its inhabitants and visitors, who are variously close-mouthed, cranky and full of hot air. With a light touch, he sets up theories and knocks them down until one fits. A pleasant, clever mystery.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0897331605
• ISBN 13: 9780897331609
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192