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The Dreadful Hollow

Nicholas Blake author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:29th May '12

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Someone is sending poison pen letters in a sleepy little village, and it's already driven one man to suicide. Can amateur detective Nigel Strangeways find the culprit before any more people die? The tenth Nigel Strangeways mystery.

Someone is sending poison pen letters in the small village of Prior's Umborne, and they have already driven one of the inhabitants to suicide. Private detective Nigel Strangeways is commissioned to find the source of the letters by arrogant financier Sir Archibald Blick, whose two sons live in the village.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

Someone is sending poison pen letters in the small village of Prior's Umborne, and they have already driven one of the inhabitants to suicide.

Private detective Nigel Strangeways is commissioned to find the source of the letters by arrogant financier Sir Archibald Blick, whose two sons live in the village, only for Sir Archibald to meet an untimely end at the bottom of the dreadful hollow...

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

The story of anonymous letters in a little village can...be read with great pleasure * Spectator *
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: 9780099565581

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm

Weight: 193g

240 pages