Case for Sergeant Beef
Leo Bruce (pseud. Rupert Croft Cooke)
Language: English
Published by Academy Chicago Limited, Chicago, 1951
Series: Book 4 of 8 - Sergeant Beef
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Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB)
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Condition: Used - Fine
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First printing of the stated first American edition (1980). Hardcover. 189 pp. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket, very shallow bump top of spine. The sixth in this classic series featuring Police Sergeant William Beef, a plodding middle-aged village copper with a ginger mustache and Cockney accent but with a surprising streak of independence and a string of crime-solving successes. By the time this (the 6th) Beef mystery, the Sergeant has left the police force to become a private detective. In this entry, a watchmaker plans the perfect murder but chooses the wrong victim. The dead man's sister refuses to believe it was a suicide and calls in Beef .The Sergeant Beef series of eight mysteries began in 1936 and ren through 1952; this case was first publihsed in Great Britain in 1951.
Seller Inventory # E37346
- Title
- Case for Sergeant Beef
- Author
- Leo Bruce (pseud. Rupert Croft Cooke)
- Publisher
- Academy Chicago Limited, Chicago
- Publication year
- 1951
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0897330374
- ISBN 13
- 9780897330374
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Series
- Book 4 of 8: Sergeant Beef
- Seller catalogs
- Mystery
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