Crime De Luxe: A Benvenuto Brown Mystery

Give me my rights or I will let them kill you. Think what has happened already-"

Benvenuto Brown is on the luxury liner Atalanta heading for New York. His thoughts are on his forthcoming one-man exhibition not murder - until a seemingly inoffensive old dear is found dead. Who could possibly have needed to murder poor Miss Smith? The nouveau riche Lord Stoke; the effortlessly alluring young widow Ann Stewart; Roger Morton-Blount avowed Communist; or gorgeous Rutland King screen star? Benvenuto Brown in his final mystery will need to sort muck from brass - and muddle from murder.

Crime de Luxe was originally published in 1933. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.

"Brown is distinctly worth meeting … The story besides being sufficiently baffling is very well written and introduces a group of unusually well-drawn characters." New York Times Book Review

An altogether delightful treat" Brooklyn Eagle