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Head of a Traveller
Nicholas Blake
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Description for Head of a Traveller
Paperback. Staying with a friend in Oxfordshire 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. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Staying 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? ... Read more
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Staying 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? ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
183g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099565666
SKU
V9780099565666
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Nicholas Blake
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Head of a Traveller
Another grade A detective story
New York Herald Tribune
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
New York Herald Tribune
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