Leo Bruce is one of the many brilliant writers I have come across since starting my blog and reading everyone else’s (much better) blogs on classic crime, so it’s always great to return to his work…| crossexaminingcrime
Vintage Mystery Scavenger Hunt Item: Blunt Instrument This is the last novel Bruce wrote featuring his serial characters Sergeant Beef and journalist and writer Townsend, who narrates Beef’s case. …| crossexaminingcrime
For someone who as a rule finds putting titles in order of preference a stressful activity, I am baffled and impressed, in equal measure, that I have managed a third such list in two months, (no st…| crossexaminingcrime