I’ll level with you: I’d been kind of dreading having to reread Case without a Corpse (1937), Leo Bruce’s second novel to feature the blunt-but-far-from-dense Sergeant William Beef. Memory told me that the novel was over-long, with a large proportion of it spent on an almost entirely pointless amount of investigation that any sensible reader … Continue reading #1356: Case without a Corpse (1937) by Leo Bruce| The Invisible Event
Leo Bruce’s eighth and final novel in which Sergeant William Beef sallies forth into polite company to batter them with blunt questions hiding a brilliant mind, Cold Blood (1952) is a strong effort that marks a distinct improvement from preceding title, the over-long and frankly tedious Neck and Neck (1951). It’s the battering to death … Continue reading #1314: Cold Blood (1952) by Leo Bruce| The Invisible Event
It’s New Year’s Eve, the final day of a most, er, dramatic year, and this is my 79th and final post of 2024. It’s also the time when some of my fellow bloggers review their accomplishmen…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
Following the revelation at the end of my recent review of Case for Three Detectives (1936) by Leo Bruce that I had not read three of sometime-Sergeant William Beef’s later cases, a friend ha…| The Invisible Event
Case for Three Detectives (1936) by Leo Bruce was perhaps the first impossible crime novel I read after becoming aware that the subgenre existed, and it had such a marked effect on me that, ne…| The Invisible Event
