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Nicholas Blake

From Shelf: The Golden Age of Detective Fiction

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYStaying with a friend in Oxfordshire, poet turned amateur detective Nigel Strangeways pays a visit to Robert Seaton, a distinguished British poet whom Nigel greatly admires but whose reputation has been on the decline of late.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYStaying with a friend in Oxfordshire, poet turned amateur detective Nigel Strangeways pays a visit to Robert Seaton, a distinguished British poet whom Nigel greatly admires but whose reputation has been on the decline of late. Seaton proves to be an irascible, temperamental man, and his unconventional household, featuring a resentful daughter and mute dwarf servant, simmers with tension. When a headless corpse is found floating in the river by the Seaton's house just a few weeks later, the poet becomes the prime suspect. But whose body is it?A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
240
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN:
9780099565666
Published Date:
29/5/2012
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 15mm
Weight:
171g
Category:
Classic crime

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Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780099565666

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