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A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

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 financier Sir Archibald Blick, whose two sons live in the village, only for Sir Archibald to meet an untimely end at the bottom of the dreadful hollow...

A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.



Trade Review
The story of anonymous letters in a little village can...be read with great pleasure * Spectator *
The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fiction -- Elizabeth Bowen
His plots are ingenious * Times Literary Supplement *
A master of detective fiction * Daily Telegraph *

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/29/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780099565581, 978-0099565581
      ISBN10: 0099565587

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

      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 financier Sir Archibald Blick, whose two sons live in the village, only for Sir Archibald to meet an untimely end at the bottom of the dreadful hollow...

      A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.



      Trade Review
      The story of anonymous letters in a little village can...be read with great pleasure * Spectator *
      The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fiction -- Elizabeth Bowen
      His plots are ingenious * Times Literary Supplement *
      A master of detective fiction * Daily Telegraph *

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