Nicholas Blake

• Sep-2012
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When John Waterson and his young wife chose Netherplash Cantorum, Dorset, for their retirement years, they could not have predicted that this idyllic spot had one severe but unforeseeable drawback: among its inhabitants was a practical joker whose fe...

• Nov-1980
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IVY LEAGUE MURDER! Nigel Strangeways in enjoying his stay in America at a university near Boston when campus life is suddenly disrupted by the shooting death of a classics professor. The local police request Nigel's assistance since the victim -- ...

• 1968
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In the West of Ireland in 1939 a young novelist rents a lonely cottage to write his new book in peace.

Almost at once, and without great resistance, he is seduced by the wife of the local squire. Harriet's husband is an older man - hot...

• 1964
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Nigel Strangeways is asked by the Security Department to guard Professor Wragby and his daughter. Wragby has a secret the Russians are out to get. But by the time Nigel arrives, the Russians have already kidnapped the Professor's daughter. The Profes...

• 1961
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Several days after private detective and poet Nigel Strangeways dines with Dr Piers Loudon and his family, the doctor vanishes, only for his legless corpse to be fished out of the river Thames.

When his family ask Nigel to protect their int...

• 1959
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Nigel Strangeways and renowned sculptor Clare Massinger go on a summer cruise in the Grecian Isles, where jealousy and hatred shimmer over the Greek columns, the sunny quiet waters, and the donkey rides. Two sisters -- Miss Ambrose, a frumpy schoolte...

• 1958
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It was shortly after entering the bar of the Nelson Arms on a Saturday in August 1955, that Charles Hammer first perceived how he might commit the perfect murder. Hammer was ruthless and predatory; he needed money quickly, and he would get it if a...

• 1957
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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....

• 1956
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Hugo Chesterman is on trial for murdering a policeman. Why did he do it? Or could he be innocent?

Daisy Bland is young, beautiful and naive, and her testimony threatens to send her husband to the gallows.

For Daisy, it all start...

• 1954
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A small boy playing in the park is handed a crumpled piece of paper by a stranger, who then collapses and dies. The boy, realising that he himself is now in danger, flees from the park with the help of detective Nigel Strangeways, only to discover...

• 1953
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Someone is sending poison pen letters in the small village of Prior''s Umborne, and they have already driven one of the inhabitants to suicide. Private detective Nigel Strangeways is commissioned to find the source of the letters by arrogant finan...

• 1949
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Staying with a friend in Oxfordshire, 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, ...

• 1947
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A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY The Second World War has just finished and amateur detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is working at the Ministry of Morale in London, in the Visual Propaganda Division.With war over, life seems to be calm again, that is un...

• 1941
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PI Nigel Strangeways returns in a "finely written wits-twister" with a "surprise shake-up at the finish" from the renowned Golden Age mystery author (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).  Sex. Money. Drugs. Take your choice.   In middle of a co...

• 1940
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Private detective Nigel Strangeways receives a call for help from Wonderland, a new holiday camp that has recently opened only to be plagued by a series of cruel practical jokes conducted by someone calling themselves 'The Mad Hatter.' The camp's own...

• 1939
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Detective Nigel Strangeways, and his explorer wife Georgia have taken a cottage in the countryside. They are slowly beginning to adjust to a more relaxed way of life when Georgia finds a mysterious locket in their garden and unwittingly sets the c...

• 1938
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Determined to find the motorist who killed his son, crime writer Frank Cairnes decides to commit a crime of his own, but his quest takes an unexpected turn, and amateur sleuth Nigel Strangeways, accompanied by Georgia, sets out to separate fact from ...

• 1937
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Tyrannical businessman Eustace Bunnett and an assortment of employees and local characters become suspects when Nigel Strangeways investigates the murder of a man found dead in one of the vats at Bunnett's Dorset brewery...

• 1936
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In the second book in the Nigel Strangeways classic crime series, the poet turned private detective is called in to help a World War One fighter pilot who has been receiving death threats.

Fergus O''Brien, a legendary World War One flying a...

• 1935
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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 begin...