FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BEAST MUST DIE - NOW A BRITBOX SERIES
The annual Sports Day at respected public school Sudeley Hall ends in tragedy when the headmaster's obnoxious nephew is found strangled in a haystack. The boy was despised by staff and students alike, but English master Michael Evans, who was seen sharing a kiss with the headmaster's beautiful young wife earlier that day, soon becomes a prime suspect for the murder. Luckily, his friend Nigel Strangeways, nephew to the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, is on hand to help investigate the case.
A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099565352
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 202 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 17 mm
"A master of detective fiction" Daily Telegraph "A thirties classic" Independent "It's an excellent introduction to this fine series of well-made and thoroughly engaging mysteries, which are some of the best of their kind." -- Laura Wilson Guardian "His plots are ingenious" Times Literary Supplement "The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fiction" -- Elizabeth Bowen
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