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Rules of Engagement (Alexander novel)

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Rules of Engagement
AuthorBruce Cook (writing as Bruce Alexander)
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSir John Fielding, #11
GenreHistorical Crime novel
PublisherPutnam
Publication date
2005
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages243 pp
ISBN0-399-15242-3
OCLC56615835
813/.54 22
LC ClassPS3553.O55314 R85 2005
Preceded byThe Price of Murder 

Rules of Engagement is the eleventh historical mystery novel about Sir John Fielding by Bruce Alexander (a pseudonym for Bruce Cook). The manuscript was unfinished when Cook died in 2003, but his widow, Judith Aller, and writer John Shannon worked together to complete it.

Plot summary

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Sir John and Jeremy are confronted with a series of bizarre deaths (including an unmotivated suicide) on the streets of Georgian London in a mystery that tests even Sir John's legendary skills of deduction. This book ends the series.