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The Whisper in the Gloom Nicholas Blake

The Whisper in the Gloom By Nicholas Blake

The Whisper in the Gloom by Nicholas Blake

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A 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.

The Whisper in the Gloom Summary

The Whisper in the Gloom by Nicholas Blake

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

A 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 are confident that they can crack the case but they soon discover that they will need the help of not just Nigel Strangeways, but of the whole British government...

A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.

The Whisper in the Gloom Reviews

A Christmas cake of a tale, richly mixed with a double portion of murders, kidnapping, adventurous, intelligent, little boys, and assassins * Times Literary Supplement *
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 *

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 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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GOR013575889
9780099565642
0099565641
The Whisper in the Gloom by Nicholas Blake
Nicholas Blake
A Nigel Strangeways Mytery
Used - Like New
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2012-05-29
252
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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