Head of a Traveller
Nicholas Blake
Head of a Traveller
Nicholas Blake
READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY;A headless corpse, an irascible poet whose reputation is on the decline and an unhappy family, all make for a classic crime read in the ninth book in the Nigel Strangeways series
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY;;Staying 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 but whose reputation has been on the decline of late. Seaton proves to be an irascible, temperamental man, and his unconventional household, featuring a resentful daughter and mute dwarf servant, simmers with tension. ;;When a headless corpse is found floating in the river by the Seaton’s house just a few weeks later, the poet becomes the prime suspect. But whose body is it?;;A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.
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