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Nicholas Blake author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:29th May '12

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An esteemed publishing firm has been sabotaged. But worse is still to come when one of their bestselling authors is murdered - in the publishers' offices. Can Nigel Strangeways catch the killer? The twelth Nigel Strangeways mystery.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

Wenham & Geraldine are a long-established and very well respected publishing firm, so when a printer's proof is sabotaged and libellous passages are mysteriously reinstated, they call in private detective Nigel Strangeways.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

Wenham & Geraldine are a long-established and very well respected publishing firm, so when a printer's proof is sabotaged and libellous passages are mysteriously reinstated, they call in private detective Nigel Strangeways. But the situation takes a turn for the worse when one of the publishers' best-selling authors - glamorous novelist Millicent Miles - is found dead in the offices.

A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.

An adroit formal detective puzzle...and a knowing picture of publishing * New York Times *
The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fiction -- Elizabeth Bowen
His plots are ingenious * Times Literary Supplement *
A master of detective fiction * Daily Telegraph *

ISBN: 9780099565567

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm

Weight: 150g

224 pages