Perennial Library, 1977. 191 yellowing pages, pictorial with white & blue ltrs, yellowed edges, corners/ edges/& head-heel of spine are nicked, yellowed back covers. A Nigel Strangeways mystery.. 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

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NICHOLAS BLAKE was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland in 1904. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. 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.

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Bookseller: Cheryl's Book Nook (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0015167
Title: Thou Shell of Death
Author: Blake, Nicholas
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Edition: 3rd Printing
ISBN 10: 0060804289
ISBN 13: 9780060804282
Publisher: Perennial Library
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1977
Keywords: Mystery
Bookseller catalogs: Mystery;

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