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 itA Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099565666Number of pages: 240Weight: 171 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
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Another grade A detective storyThe Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fictionHis plots are ingeniousA master of detective fiction
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