Neck and Neck
A Sergeant Beef Mystery
Leo Bruce
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Bringing back an acclaimed and long out-of-print cockney crime series Lionel Townsend, Sergeant Beef's priggish biographer, has surprisingly found himself the prime suspect of a murder. When his aunt in Hastings is found poisoned, Townsend must turn to Beef for assistance. When an unpopular publisher is found hanged in the Cotswolds, it seems utterly unrelated. Beef, in his inimitable way, flatfoots his way to a stunning conclusion.
Contributor Bio
Leo Bruce was the pen name of Rupert Croft-Cooke, who wrote eight mysteries featuring Sergeant William Beef, a Cockney police detective who invariably knows who done it. He also wrote more than twenty other highly praised mysteries.