This image is the cover for the book Jack on the Gallows Tree, Tales of the PanCosmos

Jack on the Gallows Tree, Tales of the PanCosmos

The dead bodies of two elderly ladies are discovered; both had been strangled. Each is found lying full-length, clasping in her hand the stem of a Madonna lily.

Leo Bruce

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 Sgt. William Beef, a cockney police detective who invariably "knows who done it." Croft-Cooke died in 1980.

Chicago Review Press