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Neck and Neck, Sergeant Beef Series

Lionel Townsend is Sergeant Beef's priggish biographer, most often found exasperated by Beef’s boorish manners. But now Townsend’s aunt has been poisoned. Townsend must turn to Beef for assistance—he has surprisingly found himself the prime suspect of the murder. 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.

Leo Bruce

Leo Bruce was the pen name of Rupert Croft-Cooke, who wrote eight mysteries featuring Sgt. William Beef, a cockney police detective who invariably "knows who done it." He also wrote more than 20 highly praised mysteries featuring Carlous Deene.

Chicago Review Press