Description: The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BEAST MUST DIE - NOW A BRITBOX SERIESRespected crime writer Frank Cairns plots the perfect murder - a murder that he himself will commit. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYThe fourth Nigel Strangeways murder mystery is a darkly compelling psychological thriller in which a crime writer plans to commit the perfect murder.FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BEAST MUST DIE - NOW A BRITBOX SERIESRespected crime writer Frank Cairns plots the perfect murder - a murder that he himself will commit.Cairns intends to murder the hit-and-run driver who killed his young son, but when his intended victim is found dead and Cairns becomes the prime suspect, the author insists that he has been framed. An old friend of Cairns calls in private detective Nigel Strangeways, who must unravel a fiendishly plotted mystery if he is to discover what really happened to George Rattery.The Beast Must Die is one of Nicholas Blakes most acclaimed novels and was picked by the Observer as one of the 1,000 novels everyone must read.A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction. Notes One of the Observers 1,000 novels everyone must read, The Beast Must Die is a darkly compelling psychological thriller in which a crime writer plans to commit the perfect murder. The fourth Nigel Strangeways mystery. Back Cover A fiendishly baffling murder Observer Respected crime writer Frank Cairns plots the perfect murder - a murder that he himself will commit. Cairns intends to murder the hit-and-run driver who killed his young son, but when his intended victim is found dead and Cairns becomes the prime suspect, the author insists that he has been framed. An old friend of Cairns calls in private detective Nigel Strangeways, who must unravel a fiendishly plotted mystery if he is to discover what really happened to George Rattery. Ingenious P.D. James An engaging yarn Guardian Flap MORE VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERIES MARGERY ALLINGHAM Mystery Mile Police at the Funeral Sweet Danger Flowers for the Judge The Case of the Late Pig The Fashion in Shrouds Traitors Purse Coroners Pidgin More Work for the Undertaker The Tiger in the Smoke The Beckoning Lady Hide My Eyes The China Governess The Mind Readers Cargo of Eagles E. F. BENSON The Blotting Book The Luck of the Vails NICHOLAS BLAKE A Question of Proof Thou Shell of Death Theres Trouble Brewing The Beast Must Die The Smiler With the Knife Malice in Wonderland The Case of the Abominable Snowman Minute for Murder Head of a Traveller The Dreadful Hollow The Whisper in the Gloom End of Chapter The Widows Cruise The Worm of Death The Sad Variety The Morning After Death EDMUND CRISPIN Buried for Pleasure The Case of the Gilded Fly Holy Disorders Love Lies Bleeding The Moving Toyshop Swan Song A. A. MILNE The Red House Mystery GLADYS MITCHELL Speedy Death The Mystery of a Butchers Shop The Longer Bodies The Saltmarsh Murders Death and the Opera The Devil at Saxon Wall Dead Mens Morris Come Away, Death St Peters Finger Brazen Tongue Hangmans Curfew When Last I Died Laurels Are Poison Here Comes a Chopper Death and the Maiden Tom Browns Body Groaning Spinney The Devils Elbow The Echoing Strangers Watsons Choice The Twenty-Third Man Spotted Hemlock My Bones Will Keep Three Quick and Five Dead Dance to Your Daddy A Hearse on May-Day Late, Late in the Evening Fault in the Structure Nest of Vipers Author Biography Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland in 1904. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. Blake initially worked as a teacher to supplement his income from his poetry writing and he published his first Nigel Strangeways novel, A Question of Proof, in 1935. Blake went on to write a further nineteen crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways, as well as numerous poetry collections and translations.During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in Minute for Murder, and after the war he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and died in 1972 at the home of his friend, the writer Kingsley Amis. Review A fiendishly baffling murder * Observer *IngeniousAn engaging yarn * Guardian *The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fictionHis plots are ingenious * Times Literary Supplement * Promotional READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYThe fourth Nigel Strangeways murder mystery is a darkly compelling psychological thriller in which a crime writer plans to commit the perfect murder. Review Text A fiendishly baffling murder Promotional "Headline" READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY The fourth Nigel Strangeways murder mystery is a darkly compelling psychological thriller in which a crime writer plans to commit the perfect murder. Details ISBN0099565382 Author Nicholas Blake Year 2012 ISBN-10 0099565382 ISBN-13 9780099565383 Format Paperback Publication Date 2012-05-03 Imprint Vintage Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Death 1972 Media Book DEWEY 823.912 Pages 304 Language English Publisher Vintage Publishing Series A Nigel Strangeways Mytery UK Release Date 2012-05-03 AU Release Date 2012-05-03 NZ Release Date 2012-05-03 Translator Polly McLean Birth 2020 Affiliation Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, India Position UN Under-Secretary General and Rector Qualifications QC Alternative 9781446476079 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:44161312;
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Book Title: The Beast Must Die
Item Height: 198mm
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Author: Nicholas Blake
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Crime
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
Item Weight: 213g
Number of Pages: 304 Pages