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Overview: Rupert Croft-Cooke aka Leo Bruce
Rupert Croft-Cooke was an English writer, a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction, including screenplays and biographies under his own name and detective stories under the pseudonym of Leo Bruce.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. Case for Three Detectives (1936)
A murder is committed, behind closed doors, in bizarre circumstances. Three amateur detectives take the case: Lord Simon Plimsoll, Monsieur Amer Picon, and Monsignor Smith (in whom discerning readers will note likeness to some familiar literary figures). Each arrives at his own brilliant solution, startling in its originality, ironclad in its logic. Meanwhile Sergean Beef sits contemptuously in the background. "But," says Sergean Beef, "I know who done it!"
2. Case Without a Corpse (1937)
This is one of Sgt. Beef’s most interesting and perplexing cases. It involves a murder, but one in which no body can be found. Young Rogers announces to Beef and others assembled in a local pub that he has committed a murder—then takes his own life. But where is the victim? How did it happen? “I always supposed,” says Beef. “a murder case started with a corpse, and then you had to find out ‘oo done it. This time we know ‘oo’s done it, but we can’t find the corpse.”
3. Case with Four Clowns (1939)
One of the rarest mysteries in the author’s Sergeant Beef series, Case with Four Clowns, which has only been published once in the US—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 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 entagled within mystery—stirs the bulldog within him. The clues are there, but unless the reader is very astute, he or she will overlook them; but Sgt. Beef misses nothing.
4. Case with No Conclusion (1939)
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.
5. Case with Ropes and Rings (1940)
The Coroner’s Jury found that the boy hanged in the school gymnasium had killed himself, but Sgt. Beef disagrees. He takes a job as a temporary school caretaker, abetted by the reluctant Townsend – Beef’s biographer — whose brother is a master at the school. Beef’s methods are not to Townsend’s liking, as they entail endless games of darts and beer all around in the local pub. Then there is another remarkably similar murder which occurs elsewhere and Beef bestirs himself to uncover the guilty
6. Case for Sergeant Beef (1947)
The ex-village policeman joins forces with the police ; there are a number of friendly and lightly-veiled digs at the plots and characters of other famous writers.
7. Neck and Neck (1951)
Sergeant Beef clears a writer suspected of killing his aunt and solves the murder of an unpopular publisher, two cases which seem unrelated at first.
8. Cold Blood (1952)
At first there seemed to be no doubt who killed Cosmo Ducrow, the recluse millionaire, with a croquet mallet, but the police are reluctant to arrest the obvious suspect. To force their hand, Sergeant Beef and his tireless chronicler, Townsend are called in to solve the crime. Then Beef’s unorthodox methods almost lead to a second murder.
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