Head of a Traveller

Head of a Traveller

Nicholas Blake

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2012
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9780099565666
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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 dwarf servant simmers with tension. When a headless corpse is found floating in the river by the Seaton’s house just a few weeks later the poet becomes the prime suspect. But whose body is it?A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.

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