Billed as "the ugliest case that Carolus Deene ever chose to investigate," Leo Bruce's "Death of a Bovver Boy" finds the redoubtable schoolmaster-turned-detective involved in yet another mystery murder--this time among teenage outcasts and skinheads in rural 1970s England.When Carolus's housekeeper, stoic Mrs. Stick, announces one evening that her husband has seen the naked body of a youth lying in "a peculiar hunched-up position" in a ditch beside the road, his hair shorn and his wrists slashed, Carolus knows that he has, at last, met the supreme challenge to test his powers of deduction....