A Question of Proof: 1 (The Nigel Strangeways Mysteries) - Softcover

Blake, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912194341 ISBN 13: 9781912194346

Publisher: Agora Books, 2018

Synopsis

None of the classical portents showed to warn him of the disastrous events soon to pile themselves upon his head.
Assistant Master, Michael Evans, is unlucky in love – he just doesn’t know it yet. Carrying on an affair with the headmaster’s wife, he finds himself rendezvousing with the beautiful Hero in the haystacks on school Sports Day.
But when a young student is found later that night, strangled in that very haystack, all evidence points to Michael. Unwilling to explain how the evidence got there, Michael calls upon his old friend (and aspiring investigator) Nigel Strangeways to help prove his innocence.
Nigel is sure he’s found the murderer, but without proof, will he be able to clear Michael’s name before it’s too late?

About this title

About the Author

Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland, in 1904 and raised in London after his mother’s death in 1906. 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

Edition details

• Publisher: Agora Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912194341
• ISBN 13: 9781912194346
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232