Author: Nicholas Blake
Year: 1935
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Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Detective
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9781601870254
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The faculty and student body at Sudeley are shocked but scarcely saddened when the headmaster's obnoxious nephew, Algernon Wyvern-Wemyss, is found dead in a haystack on Sports Day.
But when the young English master, Michael Evans, becomes a suspect in the case, he's greatly relieved when his clever friend Nigel Strangeways, who is beginning to make a name for himself as a private inquiry agent, shows up to lend a hand to the local constabulary.
Strangeways immediately wins over the students and even becomes an initiate in one of their secret societies, The Black Spot, whose members provide him with some of the information he needs to solve the case.
In the meantime Michael and Hero Vale, the pretty young wife of the headmaster, continue their hopeless love affair. When another murder follows, Strangeways is soon certain of the murderer's identity, but until he can prove it, he's reluctant to share his theory with the unimaginative but thorough Superintendent Armstrong.
Published in 1935 while he was a schoolmaster himself, this is the first detective novel by C. Day-Lewis, the noted man of letters who went on to become England's poet laureate.
This book is part of the "Nigel Strangeways" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Sad Variety"
First published in 1964
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 | "The Worm of Death"
First published in 1961
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 | "The Widow's Cruise"
First published in 1959
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 | "End of Chapter"
First published in 1957
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 | "The Dreadful Hollow"
First published in 1953
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 | "Head of a Traveller"
First published in 1949
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 | "Minute for Murder"
First published in 1947
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 | "Malice in Wonderland"
First published in 1940
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 | "The Beast Must Die"
First published in 1938
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 | "Thou Shell of Death"
First published in 1936
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