Neck and Neck - Sergeant Beef, Bk 7 Author:Leo Bruce, Rupert Croft-Cooke Lionel Townsend is Sergeant Beef's priggish biographer, most often found exasperated by Beef’s boorish manners. But now Townsend’s aunt has been poisoned. Townsend must turn to Beef for assistance -- he has surprisingly found himself the prime suspect of the murder. When an unpopular publisher is found hanged in the Cotswolds, it... more » seems utterly unrelated. Beef, in his inimitable way, flatfoots his way to a stunning conclusion.« less