Death With a Blue Ribbon

Bruce, Leo (Rupert Croft-Cooke)

ISBN 10: 0827701381 / ISBN 13: 9780827701380

Published by London House & Maxwell, 1970

About this Item

First U.S. edition. A Carolus Deene mystery. Ex-library with stamps, library indicator inked out on spine, pocket removed from rear pastedown. Gently bumped and rubbed, spine slightly cocked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # D100116

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Death With a Blue Ribbon
• Publisher: London House & Maxwell
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0827701381
• ISBN 13: 9780827701380
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good -
• Book Type: Ex-Library
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery/Suspense/Thriller

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.