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Nicholas Blake
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Paperback. Wenham & Geraldine are a long-established and very well respected publishing firm, so when a printer's proof is sabotaged and libellous passages are mysteriously reinstated, they call in private detective Nigel Strangeways. But the situation takes a turn for the worse when one of the publishers' best-selling authors is found dead in the offices. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Wenham & Geraldine are a long-established and very well respected publishing firm, so when a printer's proof is sabotaged and libellous passages are mysteriously reinstated, they call in private detective Nigel Strangeways. But the situation takes a turn for the worse when one of the publishers' best-selling authors - glamorous novelist Millicent Miles - is found dead in the offices.
A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099565567
SKU
V9780099565567
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99-2
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 ... Read more
Reviews for End of Chapter
An adroit formal detective puzzle...and a knowing picture of publishing
New York Times
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
New York Times
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