The Case of the Busy Bees

Could there be any connection between the theft of a tomahawk from Monk Jewel museum and a notorious gang of
violent thieves who called themselves ‘The Busy Bees’?
Sergeant Bradfield is sent to investigate the theft while Detective-Inspector Charlton is looking into what he feels are the far more significant crimes of The Busy Bees. But then a gruesome murder takes place and it begins to look as if there could well be a connection between the two.
This gripping tale has a host of larger- than-life characters and a page-turning narrative which has to make it one of Clifford Witting’s most entertaining Golden Age novels of detection.The author’s mastery of the genre has never been displayed so brilliantly as it is in The Case of the Busy Bees.