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. 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.īlake 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. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland in 1904.

But do any of them also have a motive for murder? It will take all of Nigel's insight and flair if he is to uncover the truth. From the moment the boat sets sail it becomes clear that many of his fellow passengers-from a neurotic widow to the ship's lecturer-have guilty secrets to hide. When 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 tragedy. The Morning After Death (Nigel Strangeways #16) (MP3 CD): The Sad Variety (Nigel Strangeways #15) (MP3 CD): The Worm of Death (Nigel Strangeways #14) (MP3 CD): The Whisper in the Gloom (Nigel Strangeways #11) (MP3 CD):Įnd of Chapter (Nigel Strangeways #12) (MP3 CD): The Dreadful Hollow (Nigel Strangeways #10) (MP3 CD): Head of a Traveller (Nigel Strangeways #9) (MP3 CD): Minute for Murder (Nigel Strangeways #8) (MP3 CD): The Case of the Abominable Snowman (Nigel Strangeways #7) (MP3 CD):

Malice in Wonderland (Nigel Strangeways #6) (MP3 CD): The Smiler with the Knife (Nigel Strangeways #5) (MP3 CD): The Beast Must Die (Nigel Strangeways #4) (MP3 CD): There's Trouble Brewing (Nigel Strangeways #3) (MP3 CD): Thou Shell of Death (Nigel Strangeways #2) (MP3 CD): This is book number 13 in the Nigel Strangeways series.Ī Question of Proof (Nigel Strangeways #1) (MP3 CD):

The Widow's Cruise by Nicholas Blake