Read Series: Nigel Strangeways
by Author Nicholas Blake
Thou Shell of Death (1977)
I gave the first book in this series four stars, and I think this one is substantially better, so I guess I have to give it five. Written in 1936, and the second in the series of Nigel Strangeways mysteries by C. Day-Lewis. Very, very reminiscent of the later Peter Wimsey novels (in fact one of t...
A Question of Proof (1990)
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 clev...
The Beast Must Die (1999)
I swear, this book has one of the most amazing hooks I have ever read in a crime novel.I am going to kill a man. I don't know his name, I don't know where he lives, I have no idea what he looks like. But I am going to find him and kill him...(Yes, nowadays it sounds like something Liam Neeson wou...