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Title: Death of a Bovver Boy
Author: Leo Bruce
Series: A Carolus Deene Mystery
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Format: Trade Paperback
List Price: $14.95
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Synopsis: The redoubtable schoolmaster-turned-detective Carolus Deene finds himself investigating yet another murder — this time among teenage outcasts and skinheads in rural 1970s England ("bovver boy" is slang for "skinhead"). After hearing about a young man's body — naked, hair shorn, wrists and ankles heavily bruised — lying in a ditch, Carolus knows that he has, at last, met the supreme challenge to test his powers of deduction.
Throughout the search for the boy's murderer, he finds himself infiltrating England's provincial "underworld" and gaining insight into the dead boy's unhappy background and surroundings. Encounters with a rude collection of thugs and punks lead him in one direction — all are equally dangerous and each might be to blame — and the idea that blaming the greasers and skinheads is too easy takes him elsewhere.
Originally published in the UK in 1974, this publication marks its US debut.
— Death of a Bovver Boy by Leo Bruce
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