The Nicholas Blake Treasury Vol 2 Author:Nicholas Blake Poet Laureate C. Day Lewis, writing under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, created 16 brilliant, literate mysteries featuring urbane, Oxford-educated amateur detective Nigel Strangeways. — In A Questioni of Proof, Sports day at Sudeley Hall finds the prep school in an uproar... but not because of the races. One of the boys --- young Alegernon Wyvern... more »-Wemyss, replusive, bulling newphew of Headmaster Percival Vale --- has been discovered strangled in a hay stack...
In There's Trouble brewing, Nigel is lecturing the Maiden Astbury Literary Society on modern poets when he's buttonholed by Eustace Bunnet, the local brewery owner, on quite another subject...
In the Smiler With the Knife, Nigel and his adventure-loving wife, Georgia, have been officially notified it's time to trim the roadside hedges...« less