Thou Shell Of Death
by Nicholas, Blake
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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London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, [1937]. [Crime Mystery] VINTAGE REPRINT. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's brick red cloth with black titles to spine. An undated early printing (almost certainly the second) in exactly the same format as the dated first edition (1935); the list of other works notes his third novel, There's Trouble Brewing, which… Read more about this item Item Price
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Thou Shell of Death
by Blake, Nicholas; Day Lewis, C.
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THOU SHELL OF DEATH (Rue Morgue Classic British Mystery)
by Blake, Nicholas
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Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2009. 1st printing. [Originally published in 1936]. Paperback. The second Nigel Strangeways mystery by the late British Poet Laureate. Part of the Rue Morgue Classic British Mystery Series. A fine, unread copy. Private inquiry agent Nigel Strangeways meets his future wife, the female explorer, Georgia Cavendish, who finds… Read more about this item Item Price
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Thou Shell of Death: A Nigel Strangeways Mystery (A Nigel Strangeways Mytery, 2)
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Paperback / softback. New. Fergus O'Brien, a legendary World War One flying ace with several skeletons hidden in his closet, receives a series of mocking letters predicting that he will be murdered on Boxing Day. Undaunted, O'Brien throws a Christmas party, inviting everyone who could be suspected of making the threats, along with private detective Nigel Strangeways. Item Price
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