The 1970s saw the last decade of life of Rupert Croft-Cooke, aka mystery writer Leo Bruce. 66 years old when the decade began, he made it to June 10, 1979, just ten days shy of his seventy-sixth birthday and five weeks after Margaret Thatcher was elected prime minister of England, having suffered a significantly debilitating stroke in 1974. Before that stroke, between 1970 and 1974, he published four additional Leo Brice detective novels, the final quartet of the Carolus Deene series: Death on Allhallowe'en (1970), Death by the Lake (1971), Death in the Middle Watch and Death of a Bovver...