Case with Four Clowns [Paperback]

Leo Bruce BRUCE (Author)

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Paperback: 313 pages
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers (Sep 7 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0897336062
ISBN-13: 978-0897336062
Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13 x 2.1 cm
Shipping Weight: 272 g

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Book Description

One of the rarest mysteries in the author’s Sergeant Beef series, Case With Four Clowns, which has only been published once in the U.S.—more than fifty years ago—is now available in paperback for the first time. It is regarded by critics as one of Leo Bruce’s most baffling mysteries. A murder is yet to be committed—that much is certain—but who will be the victim? And who will be the murderer? It is Sgt. Beef’s job to discover these facts, if he can, in time to prevent the deed from being done. But when he reaches the the small traveling circus where the murder is to take place, he finds that practically everyone there is seething with hatred, each has a motive which might make him a killer; and any one of a dozen people could easily be the victim.

The doughty Sgt. Beef has broken some pretty tough cases, and this one —with mystery entangled within mystery: now in the elephant tent, now in the clowns’ wagon; now in the Big Top—stirs the bulldog in him. The clues are there and unless the reader is very astute, he or she will overlook them; but Sgt. Beef misses nothing. And when the murderer is revealed . . .

Bruce tells his tale vividly and with gusto, enriching it with the colorful background of the circus, keeping it taut with suspense, and enlivening it with an exotic cast of circus performers.

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 Sergeant William Beef, a cockney police detective who invariably “knows who done it.” Croft-Cooke died in 1980.