Rupert Croft-Cooke Books In Order

Sergeant Beef Books In Order

  1. Case for Three Detectives (1936)
  2. Case Without a Corpse (1937)
  3. Case with Four Clowns (1939)
  4. Case with No Conclusion (1939)
  5. Case with Ropes and Rings (1940)
  6. Case for Sergeant Beef (1947)
  7. Neck and Neck (1951)
  8. Cold Blood (1952)

Carolus Deene Books In Order

  1. Dead Man’s Shoes (1958)
  2. Our Jubilee Is Death (1959)
  3. Furious Old Women (1960)
  4. Jack on the Gallows Tree (1960)
  5. A Bone and a Hank of Hair (1961)
  6. Die All, Die Merrily (1961)
  7. Nothing Like Blood (1962)
  8. Crack of Doom (1963)
  9. Death in Albert Park (1964)
  10. Death at Hallows End (1965)
  11. Death at St. Asprey’s School (1967)
  12. Death of a Commuter (1967)
  13. Death with Blue Ribbon (1969)
  14. Death on All Hallowe’en (1970)
  15. Death by the Lake (1971)
  16. Death in the Middle Watch (1974)
  17. Death of a Bovver Boy (1974)
  18. Murder in Miniature (1992)

Novels

  1. White Mountain (1949)
  2. Three Names for Nicholas (1951)
  3. Nine days with Edward (1952)
  4. Seven Thunders (1955)
  5. The Gardens of Camelot (1958)
  6. Thief (1960)
  7. Clash by Night (1962)
  8. The Wintry Sea (1964)
  9. Paper Albatross (1965)
  10. The purple streak (1966)
  11. Saint George for England (1966)
  12. The Wild Hills (1966)
  13. The ghost of june: A return to England and the West (1968)
  14. Three in a Cell (1968)
  15. Exotic Food (1969)
  16. Sound of Revelry (1969)
  17. Wolf from the Door (1969)
  18. Exiles (1970)
  19. Under the Rose Garden (1971)
  20. Whilst the Iron’s Hot (1971)
  21. Licentious Soldiery (1971)
  22. Nasty Piece of Work (1973)
  23. The Dogs of Peace (1973)
  24. Cave of Hercules (1974)
  25. The Long Way Home (1974)
  26. Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
  27. Fall of Man (1976)
  28. Green, Green Grass (1977)
  29. Octopus (1978)

Collections

Non fiction

  1. Buffalo Bill (1952)
  2. Wine and Other Drinks (1962)
  3. Feasting with Panthers (1967)
  4. The Unrecorded Life of Oscar Wilde (1972)
  5. Circus (1976)

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Rupert Croft-Cooke Books Overview

Dead Man’s Shoes

Everyone knew there’d been a murder, everyone knew who the murderer was, and when this murdered committed suicide by jumping overboard or was he thrown overboard? from cargo boat Saragossa as she sailed to London from North Africa and Spanish ports, they thought ‘Good riddance to bad rubbish’, and everyone, the police included, dropped the case. Everyone, that is, except Carlous Deene

Our Jubilee Is Death

Walking on the sand before breakfast, Carolus Deen’s cousin Fay, who was staying on the Suffolk coast, has come upon the head of Lilliane Bomberger, the celebrated and universally detested novelist. The body was buried in the sand with only the head protruding; at least one tide had washed over it. Before this frustrating case ends, three murders are committed. This is vintage Bruce, mixing thrills and chills with unique humour.

Furious Old Women

Mysterious doings in a churchyard. A catalogue of crime calls this ‘probably Bruce’s wittiest and best plotted novel to date. A very ingenious idea…
a fine surprise in the last moments. The humour and wit are of a high order…
‘.

Jack on the Gallows Tree

Within an hour or two the dead bodies of two elderly ladies are discovered in the vicinity of Buddington on the Hill; both had been strangled. Each is found lying full length, clasping in her hand the stem of Madonna lily. The work of a maniac? Two murderers working together? It’s up to Carolous Deene to find out. Enough clever little twists to puzzle even the seasoned mystery reader who will recognise Leo Bruce as a master of the genre.

Crack of Doom

Someone very, very clever planned this murder. The place: a remote shelter on the promenade at Selby on Sea; the occasion: a stormy evening in late November; the victim: somebody ready made for a Crack of Doom from a coal hammer. However, the murderer had not counted on the clever, tenacious mind of Carolus Deene.

Death in Albert Park

In a gloomy London suburb a modern Jack the Ripper stalks at night, killing at random with brutal knife thrusts from behind. Three women fall victim, and the terrorised residents wait to see who will be next. Was it a method in these murders? Although the police resent his presence, only Carolus Deene can solve this puzzler.

Death at Hallows End

It was not so much a question of ‘who done it’ as of ‘who done what.’ Respectable solicitors do not disappear every day, but Duncan Humby had vanished into thin air while on his way to prepare a new will for James Grossiter a will in which the crotchety millionaire intended to dispossess all his relations and his manservant in favor of numerous charities. The death from a heart attack of Old Grossiter himself was too much of a coincidence for Carolus Deene, who was called upon to find the missing solicitor, and as he made his way to the remote village of Hallows End, where Humby’s car has been seen and where Grossiter was staying, he had a strong feeling of sinister evil and danger…
a feeling that was soon to be translated into horrible fact.

Death at St. Asprey’s School

There are strange goings on at St. Asprey’s, an expensive boys’ preparatory school: footsteps in passages at night…
strange lights…
rabbits with battered skulls…
a face in the window…
a puppy found in a pool of blood…
and even worse to come. In a tense, chilling atmosphere Carolous Deene has some spine tingling experiences before he solves the mystery of these curious and sinister events.

Death on All Hallowe’en

Carolous Deene is summoned to a small kentish village where the presence of a possible coven of witches lends an eerie aura to the presumed ‘accidental’ death of young local boy a year ago on Hallowe’en. Before his work is completed, Carolous Deene has the answers to this and two other deaths.

Death in the Middle Watch

Death in the Middle Watch is vintage Leo Bruce, enhanced by the effortless humour that is a hallmark of all Leo Bruce mysteries. This time, Carolus is enjoying himself on a holiday cruise. On the first night aboard the Summer Queen, there is a shout of ‘Man Overboard!’ From that point on to the moment of Deene’s unexpected revelations, the reader will find that unique mixture of artless fun and grim terror Bruce devotees savour. The reader will also be glad to welcome once again Mr Gorringer Deene’s public school Headmaster and Mrs Stick Deene’s intrepid housekeeper and cook who is always in a state of horror at Deene’s involvement in the solution of crimes.

Murder in Miniature

Master crime writer Leo Bruce wrote the majority of these tales for the ‘London Evening Standard’ where they appeared between 1950 and 1956. There are twenty eight stories in this book. They add to our knowledge of Sergeant Beef, one of the most colourful fictional detectives; we are also introduced to an unexpected second detective, the astute and resourceful policeman Sergeant Grebe; and they offer a last chance to encounter anew their author’s characteristic wit and ingenuity.

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