The Morning After Death

Nicholas Blake author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:29th May '12

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The Morning After Death cover

Private detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is visiting an Ivy League university near Boston when one of the tutors is found murdered. Can Nigel help the police catch the killer?

When one of the brothers is found murdered, the local police request Nigel's help in catching the killer, but little does Nigel know just how close he is to the murderer.

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

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

Private detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is staying at Cabot University, an Ivy League university near Boston, while he undertakes some research. There he encounters the Ahlberg brothers - Chester, Assistant Senior Tutor in the Business School, Mark, who lectures in the English Faculty and their half-brother, Josiah, a professor of Classics. When one of the brothers is found murdered, the local police request Nigel's help in catching the killer, but little does Nigel know just how close he is to the murderer.

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

One of Blake's best -- Rex Warner
Has all the usual charm of style and characterisation; I thoroughly enjoyed it -- John Dickson Carr
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: 9780099565598

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm

Weight: 161g

224 pages