Our Jubilee Is Death just barely squeaks into the Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge as it was published in 1959. Smooth schoolmaster Carolus Deene investigates the death of the odious Mrs. Lillianne Bomberger, a bestselling mystery writer. She is found buried up to the neck, with only her head sticking out of the sand, on a beach in eastern England, by Carolus's cousin Fay. The title is a quote from Sir Thomas Browne and seems to refer to the great pleasure that everyone takes in Mrs. Bomberger's death.
This book was a great deal of fun and I recommend it to lovers of the witty British mystery. I have read other Leo Bruce mysteries and this was the most enjoyable so far.
For purposes of the VMRC, this title is category 18, Murder on the High Seas.
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