The Beast Must Die
by 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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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blake, Nicholas (C. Day Lewis). THE BEAST MUST DIE. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1938. First American Edition. 8vo., 260pp., publisher's yellow cloth covered boards. A very good copy of this brillian Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone Nigel Strangeways mystery. Collector's [Landfried] custom plain heavy white… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Collins Crime Club, [1938]., 1938. First edition. First U.S. edition. Original fine, bright orange cloth is tight and square in a bright fresh dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends. 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… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Beast Must Die; The Whisper in the Gloom
by Nicholas Blake [Cecil Day-Lewis]
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