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The Smiler with the Knife
Nicholas Blake
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Description for The Smiler with the Knife
Paperback. Detective Nigel Strangeways, and his explorer wife Georgia have taken a cottage in the countryside. They are slowly beginning to adjust to a more relaxed way of life when Georgia finds a mysterious locket in their garden and unwittingly sets the couple on a collision course with a power-hungry movement aimed at overthrowing the government. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212.
Detective Nigel Strangeways, and his explorer wife Georgia have taken a cottage in the countryside. They are slowly beginning to adjust to a more relaxed way of life when Georgia finds a mysterious locket in their garden and unwittingly sets the couple on a collision course with a power-hungry movement aimed at overthrowing the government.
It will take all of Nigel's brilliance and Georgia's bravery if they are to infiltrate the order and unmask the conspirators.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099565635
SKU
V9780099565635
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99-3
About Nicholas Blake
Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland in 1904. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. Blake initially worked as a teacher to supplement his income from his poetry writing and he published his first Nigel Strangeways novel, A Question of Proof, in 1935. Blake went on to write a further nineteen crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways, as well as numerous poetry collections and translations. During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in Minute for Murder, and after the war he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and died in 1972 at the home of his friend, the writer Kingsley Amis.
Reviews for The Smiler with the Knife
Georgia Cavendish Strangeways is one of the most complex and likeable characters in the crime fiction of the so-called Golden Age
Sara Paretsky
Guardian
Nicholas Blake at the very top of his form
Woman’s Journal
An extraordinarily well written and entertaining thriller
Saturday Review of Literature
The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fiction
Elizabeth Bowen His plots are ingenious
Times Literary Supplement
A master of detective fiction
Daily Telegraph
Sara Paretsky
Guardian
Nicholas Blake at the very top of his form
Woman’s Journal
An extraordinarily well written and entertaining thriller
Saturday Review of Literature
The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fiction
Elizabeth Bowen His plots are ingenious
Times Literary Supplement
A master of detective fiction
Daily Telegraph