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Billed as the ugliest case that Carolus Deene ever chose to investigate, Leo Bruces Death of a Bovver Boy finds the redoubtable schoolmaster-turned-detective involved in yet another mystery murderthis time among teenage outcasts and skinheads in rural 1970s England. When Caroluss 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 Englands provincial underworld and gaining insight into the dead boys 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 perseveredespite all the forces urging him to the contrarydoes Carolus finally solve the mystery. This is one of Leo Bruces grittiest novels, giving the reader an insight into the mi

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Author

Bruce, Leo

Publisher

Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9781613732502

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Mystery, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24