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  • The Deadly Joker
    Nicholas Blake
    When John Waterson and his young wife chose Netherplash Cantorum, Dorset, for their retirement years, they could not have predicted that this idyllic spot had one severe but unforeseeable drawback: among its inhabitants was a practical joker whose fertile mind ran to the most bizarre and grotesque designs. The Village was no place for a quite retirement, or for a gentle recuper...
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    19,80 €

  • The Whisper in the Gloom
    Nicholas Blake
    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYA small boy playing in the park is handed a crumpled piece of paper by a stranger who then collapses and dies. The boy realising that he himself is now in danger flees from the park with the help of detective Nigel Strangeways only to discover that the mysterious message consists of just his own name and age: Bert Hale 12. Bert and his young friends ...
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  • The Widows Cruise
    Nicholas Blake
    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYWhen private detective Nigel Strangeways books tickets for a holiday in the Greek islands with renowned sculptor Claire Massinger he has no idea that the trip will end in tragedy. From the moment the boat sets sail it becomes clear that many of his fellow passengers - from a neurotic widow to the ship’s lecturer - have guilty secrets to hide but do any...
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    18,18 €

  • The Worm of Death
    Nicholas Blake
    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYSeveral days after private detective and poet Nigel Strangeways dines with Dr Piers Loudon and his family the doctor vanishes only for his legless corpse to be fished out of the river Thames. When his family ask Nigel to protect their interests during the police investigation it soon becomes apparent that each member of the deceased’s family from his...
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    22,66 €

  • The Case of the Abominable Snowman
    Nicholas Blake
    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYPoet turned detective Nigel Strangeways is summoned to Easterham Manor in the depths of winter to investigate a series of strange events which culminate in the apparent suicide of a wealthy young woman whose behaviour has scandalised the village. As Nigel begins his investigations into the dead girl’s past it soon becomes clear that someone in the manor...
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    18,04 €

  • End of Chapter
    Nicholas Blake
    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYWenham & 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 -...
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    22,85 €

  • Minute for Murder
    Nicholas Blake
    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYThe Second World War has just finished and amateur detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is working at the Ministry of Morale in London in the Visual Propaganda Division.With war over life seems to be calm again that is until the Director’s beautiful secretary is poisoned in full view of seven members of the division including Nigel himself. Who could...
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    22,66 €

  • The Dreadful Hollow
    Nicholas Blake
    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYSomeone 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 a...
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    22,59 €

  • The Morning After Death
    Nicholas Blake
    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYPrivate 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...
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    22,78 €

  • The Sad Variety
    Nicholas Blake
    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYThe government’s security department have asked private detective Nigel Strangeways to keep a discreet eye on Professor Alfred Wagley a research scientist who is spending the Christmas holidays in the South-West of England. But someone else is also very interested in the professor and his work and when his young daughter is kidnapped Nigel finds himse...
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    18,18 €

  • The Smiler With The Knife
    Nicholas Blake
    Detective Nigel Strangeways and his explorer wife Georgia have taken a cottage in the countryside. They are slowly beginning to adjust to a more relaxed way of life when Georgia finds a mysterious locket in their garden and unwittingly sets the couple on a collision course with a power-hungry movement aimed at overthrowing the government.It will take all of Nigel’s brilliance ...
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    22,52 €

  • Head of a Traveller
    Nicholas Blake
    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYStaying with a friend in Oxfordshire poet turned amateur detective Nigel Strangeways pays a visit to Robert Seaton a distinguished British poet whom Nigel greatly admires but whose reputation has been on the decline of late. Seaton proves to be an irascible temperamental man and his unconventional household featuring a resentful daughter and mute dw...
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    22,71 €

  • Malice in Wonderland
    Nicholas Blake
    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYPrivate detective Nigel Strangeways receives a call for help from Wonderland a new holiday camp that has recently opened only to be plagued by a series of cruel practical jokes conducted by someone calling themselves ’The Mad Hatter’. The camp’s owners are convinced a rival firm desperate to put them out of business are behind the events. Or could it ...
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    18,18 €

  • Immigration, Asylum and Human Rights
    Nicholas Blake / Nicholas Blake Qc / Raza Husain
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    193,73 €