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Thou Shell of Death

English

By (author): Nicholas Blake

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BEAST MUST DIE - NOW A BRITBOX SERIES

Fergus O'Brien, a legendary World War One flying ace with several skeletons hidden in his closet, receives a series of mocking letters predicting that he will be murdered on Boxing Day.

Undaunted, O'Brien throws a Christmas party, inviting everyone who could be suspected of making the threats, along with private detective Nigel Strangeways. But despite Nigel's presence, the former pilot is found dead, just as predicted, and Nigel is left to aid the local police in their investigation while trying to ignore his growing attraction to one of the other guests - and suspects - explorer Georgina Cavendish.

A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 223g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 03 May 2012
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780099565369

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.

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