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The Case of the Abominable Snowman Nicholas Blake

The Case of the Abominable Snowman By Nicholas Blake

The Case of the Abominable Snowman by Nicholas Blake

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A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

Poet turned detective Nigel Strangeways is summoned to Easterham Manor in the depths of winter to investigate a series of strange events, which culminate in the apparent suicide of a wealthy young woman whose behaviour has scandalised the village.

The Case of the Abominable Snowman Summary

The Case of the Abominable Snowman by Nicholas Blake

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

Poet turned detective Nigel Strangeways is summoned to Easterham Manor in the depths of winter to investigate a series of strange events, which culminate in the apparent suicide of a wealthy young woman whose behaviour has scandalised the village.

As Nigel begins his investigations into the dead girl's past it soon becomes clear that someone in the manor is trying to hide something, and they will stop at nothing to keep their secrets safe.

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

The Case of the Abominable Snowman Reviews

The finding of the body is a masterly scene of the macabre... The problems are skilfully set and unexpectedly solved * Times Literary Supplement *
If there is a distinction between the novel and the detective story, then this book deserves a high place in both categories * 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 *

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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GOR004986362
9780099565550
0099565552
The Case of the Abominable Snowman by Nicholas Blake
Nicholas Blake
A Nigel Strangeways Mytery
Used - Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
20120529
192
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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