Cecil Day-Lewis, geboren am 27. April 1904 in Ballintubbert (Irland), gestorben am 22. Mai 1972 in London; bedeutender englischer Lyriker. 1923 Studium in Oxford und zunächst Lehrtätigkeit an einem College; 1968 Berufung ins Amt des Hofdichters (Poet Laureate). Day-Lewis zählte schon früh zu den herausragenden Dichtern seiner Generation. Unter dem Pseudonym Nicholas Blake verfaßte Day-Lewis insgesamt zwanzig Kriminalromane.
30 Електронні книги від Nicholas Blake
Nicholas Blake: Ein glühend Messer
Was als unbeschwerter Kurzurlaub am Meer mit der jungen Geliebten Laura gedacht war, endet für den verheirateten Schriftsteller Ned Stowe in einem Alptraum. Eines Abends nämlich begegnet er in einem …
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Cecily Gayford: A Very Murderous Christmas
The Christmas season is one of comfort and joy, sparkling lights and steam rising from cups of mulled wine at frosty carol services. A season of goodwill, as families and friends come together to for …
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Nicholas Blake: Question of Proof
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BEAST MUST DIE – NOW A BRITBOX SERIESThe annual Sports Day at respected public school Sudeley Hall ends in tragedy when the headmaster’s obnoxious nephew is found strangled in …
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Nicholas Blake: Thou Shell of Death
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BEAST MUST DIE – NOW A BRITBOX SERIESFergus O’Brien, a legendary World War One flying ace with several skeletons hidden in his closet, receives a series of mocking letters pred …
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Nicholas Blake: There’s Trouble Brewing
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BEAST MUST DIE – NOW A BRITBOX SERIESPrivate detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is invited to address the Maiden Astbury literary society. The picturesque Dorset town is home …
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Nicholas Blake: Beast Must Die
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-r …
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Nicholas Blake: Worm of Death
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 …
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Nicholas Blake: End of Chapter
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, t …
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Nicholas Blake: Head of a Traveller
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 bu …
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Nicholas Blake: Malice in Wonderland
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 jok …
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Nicholas Blake: Minute for Murder
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 …
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Nicholas Blake: Case of the Abominable Snowman
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 suici …
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Nicholas Blake: Dreadful Hollow
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 Strangew …
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Nicholas Blake: Morning After Death
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 A …
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Nicholas Blake: Widow’s Cruise
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 tra …
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Nicholas Blake: Whisper in the Gloom
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 …
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Nicholas Blake: Smiler With The Knife
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 l …
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Nicholas Blake: Sad Variety
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 …
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Blake Nicholas Blake: Tangled Web
Hugo Chesterman is on trial for murdering a policeman. Why did he do it? Or could he be innocent? Daisy Bland is young, beautiful and naive, and her testimony threatens to send her husband to the gal …
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Blake Nicholas Blake: Penknife in My Heart
First published in 1958, A Penknife in My Heart tells the story of how two men – total strangers – establish the perfect alibis by arranging to switch victims. Ned Stowe will kill Stuart Hammer’s wea …
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Blake Nicholas Blake: Deadly Joker
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: a …
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Blake Nicholas Blake: Private Wound
In the West of Ireland in 1939 a young novelist rents a lonely cottage to write his new book in peace.Almost at once, and without great resistance, he is seduced by the wife of the local squire. Harr …
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Nicholas Blake & Christianna Brand: Bodies from the Library
This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Ch …
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Nicholas Blake: Das Geheimnis von Dower House
Ferguson O’Brien, hochdekorierter Pilot und Abenteurer, erhält seit einiger Zeit eine Reihe von äußerst eloquenten Morddrohungen, in denen ihm angekündigt wird, den zweiten Weihnachtsfeiertag nicht z …
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Nicholas Blake: Das Geheimnis des Schneemanns
»Mr. Strangeways, ich wüsste gern, ob Sie das Übernatürliche akzeptieren.« Im ehrwürdigen Easterham Manor gehen sonderbare Dinge vor sich. Zu Heiligabend haben sich Familie und Freunde versammelt, um …
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Anthony Berkeley & Nicholas Blake: Bodies from the Library 3
This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh an …
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Nicholas Blake: Tod im Wunderland
»Nehmt euch vor dem verrückten Hutmacher in Acht« In einer Ferienkolonie treibt ein mysteriöser Unruhestifter sein Unwesen und nennt sich selbst »Der verrückte Hutmacher«. Die sorgenfreie Stimmung in …
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Nicholas Blake: Splątana sieć
Praca, przyjaciele, niezależność, niewinność… Co jeszcze można poświęcić dla ukochanego mężczyzny? Niespodziewane spotkanie z czarującym Hugo Chestermanem całkowicie odmienia życie Daisy Bland, mło …
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Nicholas Blake: Niech bestia zdycha
Co musi zdarzyć się w życiu odnoszącego sukcesy pisarza kryminałów, aby zaczął planować zabójstwo ze szczególnym okrucieństwem? Powieścipisarz Frank Cairnes w odwecie za tragiczny wypadek swego sześc …
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Nicholas Blake: Mord auf der Kreuzfahrt
»Haben Sie jemals versucht, eine erwachsene Frau über die Reling eines Schiffes zu werfen?« Die renommierte Bildhauerin Clare Massinger hat eine kreative Flaute. Um sie zu inspirieren, bucht ihr Part …
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