Thou Shell of Death by Nicholas Blake

Thou Shell of Death by 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.

"It has all the virtues of culture, intelligence and sensibility that the most exacting connoisseur could ask of detective fiction" Times Literary Supplement "A master of detective fiction" Daily Telegraph "The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fiction" -- Elizabeth Bowen

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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ISBN 13	9780099565369
ISBN 10	0099565366
Title	Thou Shell of Death
Author	Nicholas Blake
Series	A Nigel Strangeways Mytery
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2012-05-03
Number of pages	320
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