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Rupert Croft-Cooke


UK flag (1903 - 1979)

aka Leo Bruce

Rupert Croft-Cooke was an English writer, a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction, including screenplays and biographies under his own name and detective stories under the pseudonym of Leo Bruce.

Genres: Mystery
 
Series
Sergeant Beef (as by Leo Bruce)
   1. Case for Three Detectives (1936)
   2. Case Without a Corpse (1937)
   3. Case with Four Clowns (1939)
   4. Case with No Conclusion (1939)
   5. Case with Ropes and Rings (1940)
   6. Case for Sergeant Beef (1947)
   7. Neck and Neck (1951)
   8. Cold Blood (1952)
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Carolus Deene (as by Leo Bruce)
   At Death's Door (1955)
   Dead for a Ducat (1956)
   Death of Cold (1956)
   A Louse for the Hangman (1958)
   Dead Man's Shoes (1958)
   Our Jubilee Is Death (1959)
   Furious Old Women (1960)
   Jack on the Gallows Tree (1960)
   A Bone and a Hank of Hair (1961)
   Die All, Die Merrily (1961)
   Nothing Like Blood (1962)
   Crack of Doom (1963)
     aka Such Is Death
   Death in Albert Park (1964)
   Death at Hallows End (1965)
   Death on the Black Sands (1966)
   Death at St. Asprey's School (1967)
   Death of a Commuter (1967)
   Death on Romney Marsh (1968)
   Death with Blue Ribbon (1969)
   Death on All Hallowe'en (1970)
   Death by the Lake (1971)
   Death in the Middle Watch (1974)
   Death of a Bovver Boy (1974)
   Murder in Miniature (1992)
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Novels
   Release the Lions (1933)
   White Mountain (1949)
   Brass farthing (1950)
   The Circus Has No Home (1951)
   The Sawdust Ring (1951)
   Three Names for Nicholas (1951)
   The Life for Me (1952)
   Nine days with Edward (1952)
   The Blood-Red Island (1953)
   Harvest moon (1953)
   A Few Gipsies (1955)
   Seven Thunders (1955)
   Sherry (1955)
   The Tangerine House (1956)
   Port (1957)
   The Gardens of Camelot (1958)
   The Quest for Quixote (1959)
   The Altar in the Loft (1960)
   Barbary Night (1960)
   Thief (1960)
   The drums of morning (1961)
   Madiera (1961)
   Clash by Night (1962)
   The glittering pastures (1962)
   Bosie (1963)
   The numbers came (1963)
   Tales of a Wicked Uncle (1963)
   The last of spring (1964)
   The Wintry Sea (1964)
   The Gorgeous East (1965)
   Paper Albatross (1965)
   The purple streak (1966)
   Saint George for England (1966)
   The Wild Hills (1966)
   The happy highways (1967)
   The ghost of june: A return to England and the West (1968)
   Three in a Cell (1968)
   Exotic Food (1969)
   Sound of Revelry (1969)
   Wolf from the Door (1969)
   Exiles (1970)
   Under the Rose Garden (1971)
   Whilst the Iron's Hot (1971)
   Licentious Soldiery (1971)
   Nasty Piece of Work (1973)
   The Dogs of Peace (1973)
   Cave of Hercules (1974)
   The Long Way Home (1974)
   Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
   Fall of Man (1976)
   Green, Green Grass (1977)
   Octopus (1978)
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Collections
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Rupert Croft-Cooke
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Bodies from the Library 4 (2021)
(Bodies from the Library, book 4)
edited by
Tony Medawar
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Settling Scores (2020)
Sporting Mysteries
(British Library Crime Classics)
edited by
Martin Edwards
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Bodies from the Library (2018)
Lost Classic Stories by Masters of the Golden Age
(Bodies from the Library, book 1)
edited by
Tony Medawar

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