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A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
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 interests during the police investigation, it soon becomes apparent that each member of the deceased's family, from his adopted son to his daughter's unpleasant fiancée, had a strong motive for killing him.
As the winter fog swirls outside, Nigel must find his way through a maze of conflicting stories, missing diaries and red herrings.
A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.
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 interests during the police investigation, it soon becomes apparent that each member of the deceased's family, from his adopted son to his daughter's unpleasant fiancée, had a strong motive for killing him.
As the winter fog swirls outside, Nigel must find his way through a maze of conflicting stories, missing diaries and red herrings.
A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.
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"Mr Blake tirelessly and entertainingly baffles his readers" (Times Literary Supplement)
"The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fiction" (Elizabeth Bowen)
"A master of detective fiction" (Daily Telegraph)
"It is one of Blake's very best - and his best is better than almost anyone's" (Louis Untermeyer)
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"The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fiction" (Elizabeth Bowen)
"A master of detective fiction" (Daily Telegraph)
"It is one of Blake's very best - and his best is better than almost anyone's" (Louis Untermeyer)
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In the depths of foggy London, private detective Nigel Strangeways must unravel a curious case of a murdered doctor and his missing diary. The fourteenth Nigel Strangeways mystery.
In the depths of foggy London, private detective Nigel Strangeways must unravel a curious case of a murdered doctor and his missing diary. The fourteenth Nigel Strangeways mystery.
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