Death With Blue Ribbon

Fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped) Hardcover first edition - London House & Maxwell,, (1970). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped). First US printing. Carolus Deene, a senior history master, ex-commando and amateur detective, "becomes involved in his latest adventure when a famous restaurateur is threatened by a protection racketeer and a well-known writer of cookbooks is murdered under extraordinary circumstances." 176 pp.

Leo Bruce is the nom de plume of Rupert Croft-Cooke, who wrote some 125 mysteries, biographies and memoirs. He died in 1980. There are twenty-two mysteries featuring Deene, of which Academy Chicago has already published eleven. Death at Hallows End starts the new hardcover series. The remaining novels will be published over the next several seasons. First published in 1964, Death at Hallows End--like all Carolus Deene novels--appears in the U.S. for the first time under an American imprint.