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THE BEAST MUST DIE.
de BLAKE, NICHOLAS
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New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938., 1938. First edition. First U.S. edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free fly leaf "Eric Gillette (?) with best wishes from the author." Original yellow cloth is lightly soiled with a few tiny spots, else a very good copy in dust jacket with small chips and tiny nicks to the spine ends, corners and extremities. The book is divided into three parts. The first section deals with the death of Martie, a young boy killed by a hit-and-run driver. The father grieves and blames himself for having sent the boy out at dusk. At the same time he plans to kill the driver if and when he learns the identity. The second section deals with the father coming to grips with his son's death and devotes his energies to tracking down his son's killer. As he searches for the killer he develops a profile of the killer and looks for the right person to fill the bill as driver and killer. He decides upon a man named George Rattery, whose life fits the bill of the father's mental picture of the killer. He decides to kill Rattery in a boating accident. Section three reveals that George Rattery is dead by poisoning, the father's diary comes to light and the police accuse him of murdering Rattery. He calls in Nigel Strangeways to clear his name. After much investigation Strangeways brings the case to a stunning conclusion. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title. Highly recommended.
Sinopsis
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.
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- Librería
- BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 48034
- Título
- THE BEAST MUST DIE.
- Autor
- BLAKE, NICHOLAS
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938.
- Lugar de publicación
- New York and London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1938
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