"Our Jubilee Is Death"

It is, I suppose, somewhat disconcerting to go out for a morning walk along the beach - and find someone, quite dead, buried up to her neck in the sand, with only her head showing. That's the situation in the novel "Our Jubilee Is Death," by Leo Bruce, which is reviewed this week on our podcast - you can listen to the full review here.

Bruce's detective, Carolus Deene, is a schoolteacher, who is drawn into the affair by his cousin, the woman who stumbled over the body on the beach. The victim turns out to be one of those enormously irritating characters, a person who gives nearly everyone a reason to have committed the murder. Oh, and she's a mystery writer, as well. So why is everyone lying to Deane when he tries to investigate the murder?

This is a fast-paced and funny mystery in the classic mold, quite fairly clued for the astute and observant reader.