Nicholas Blake Libri

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 locket in their garden and unwittingly sets the couple on a collision course with a power-hungry movement aimed at overthrowing the government.

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. When one of the brothers is found murdered, the local police request Nigel's help in catching the killer, but little does Nigel know just how close he is to the murderer.

This book addresses the material details of the Human Rights Act 1998 in the UK and examines the very different new scheme of immigration control mandated by the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. The authors then analyze the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998

Dr Piers Loudron, the new neighbor of Nigel Strangeways and Clare Massinger, suddenly disappears. His family asks Nigel to find out what happened to him, but they are far from cooperative about answering any questions. Then, three days later, the doctor is found dead. First, the question is, Was it suicide or murder? Then it becomes, Who killed him? (Publisher’s description)

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: among its inhabitants was a practical joker whose fertile mind ran to the most bizarre and grotesque designs. The Village was no place for a quite retirement, or for a gentle recuperation from the nervous breakdown that had afflicted Waterson's wife. In Netherplash, the peace is continually disrupted with extraordinary events tripping over each other which, in the end, lead to a hideous and painful murder. With a cast of characters who are both bizarre and believable, this is an original tour-de-force of crime fiction placing Blake firmly in the genre.

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, they call in private detective Nigel Strangeways.

The temperature is dropping, the wind is rising: something sinister is on its way to Smugglers' Cottage. Ten guests huddle together in a guest house for their Christmas holidays in the south of England. Among them is Private Investigator Nigel Strangeways, sent by the British security department to keep a close eye on Professor Alfred Wragby - a scientist who has made a recent discovery that could turn the tide of the Cold War. But Wragby isn't the only one Nigel should be watching... When Wragby's eight-year-old daughter is kidnapped and his formula demanded in exchange, Nigel finds himself in a race against the clock to save more than just the young girl's life. And with an accomplice lurking in their number, Nigel must expose the mole before the situation turns deadly. The Sad Variety was first published in 1964.

Wartime Britain: photos are stolen… a secretary is poisoned… a director is stabbed… Who put the poison in blonde femme fatale Nita Prince’s coffee cup? A hero returned from a secret mission visits his onetime colleagues (among them, Nigel Strangeways) at the Ministry of Morale. His former fiancée, the beautiful Nita, is now having an affair with the director, his brother-in-law…