{"product_id":"death-of-a-bovver-boy-a-carolus-deene-mystery-9780897337335","title":"Death of a Bovver Boy: A Carolus Deene Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eBilled as \"the ugliest case that Carolus Deene ever chose to investigate,\" Leo Bruce's \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Bovver Boy\u003c\/i\u003e finds the redoubtable schoolmaster-turned-detective involved in yet another mystery murder--this time among teenage outcasts and skinheads in rural 1970s England. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Carolus's housekeeper, stoic Mrs. Stick, announces one evening that her husband has seen the naked body of a youth lying in \"a peculiar hunched-up position\" in a ditch beside the road, his hair shorn and his wrists slashed, Carolus knows that he has, at last, met the supreme challenge to test his powers of deduction. And this is just the beginning: from this point on, the detective is involved in a lively series of adventures infiltrating England's provincial underworld and gaining insight into the dead boy's unhappy background and surroundings. A rude collection of thugs and punks become involved in the search for the murderer; all are equally dangerous and each might be to blame. Only through his ingenuity and determination to persevere--despite all the forces urging him to the contrary--does Carolus finally solve the mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is one of Leo Bruce's grittiest novels, giving the reader an insight into the milieu of rebellious 1970s England, a world where prejudice was the order of the day and hostility and violence were the only means of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leo Bruce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Academy Chicago Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.37d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780897337335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeo Bruce\u003c\/b\u003e was the pen name of Rupert Croft-Cooke, who wrote more than twenty highly praised mysteries featuring Carolus Deene. He also wrote eight mysteries featuring Sergeant William Beef, a cockney police detective who invariably \"knows who done it,\" and dozens of biographies and memoirs. He died in 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Academy Chicago Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40245459746931,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_3e3c620d-498d-47cf-8e4b-180d84ae2a5e.jpg?v=1657291942","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/death-of-a-bovver-boy-a-carolus-deene-mystery-9780897337335","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}