Nicholas Blake (1) (1904–1972)
Author of The Beast Must Die
For other authors named Nicholas Blake, see the disambiguation page.
Nicholas Blake (1) has been aliased into C. Day Lewis.
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Works by Nicholas Blake
Works have been aliased into C. Day Lewis.
Quando l'amore uccide 1 copy
The Long Shot [Short story] 1 copy
Rødt lys for Charles Hammer 1 copy
Roligt hav - voldsom død 1 copy
Det dybe så 1 copy
No title 1 copy
La maraña 1 copy
Drepende frykt 1 copy
A Slice of Bad Luck 1 copy
La cabeza del viajero 1 copy
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Works have been aliased into C. Day Lewis.
Murder on the Menu: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery, Volume 1 (1984) — Contributor — 199 copies, 2 reviews
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- Legal name
- Day Lewis, Cecil
- Birthdate
- 1904
- Date of death
- 1972
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Short biography
- Nicholas Blake was the pen name of Cecil Day-Lewis, or C. Day Lewis, born in Ballintubbert, County Laois, Ireland, to Anglo-Irish parents. His father Frank Day-Lewis was a clergyman of the Church of Ireland. After 1906, following the death of his mother Kathleen when he was two years old, he was brought up in England by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives back in County Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset and then read classics (nicknamed "Greats") at Wadham College, Oxford, where he became a member of the circle of writers around W.H. Auden. While still a student, he published his first collection of poems. After graduating in 1927, he worked as a schoolteacher and to supplement his income, he wrote his first detective novel A Question of Proof, published in 1935 under the name Nicholas Blake. As Blake, he wrote 19 more crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways. Nicholas Blake became one of the UK's most popular detective novelists, and these books have remained in print. During World War II, he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in his novel Minute for Murder (1947). After the war, he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director before becoming a professor of Poetry at Cambridge and Oxford. He was appointed poet laureate of England in 1968.
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- Works
- 40
- Also by
- 19
- Members
- 3,154
- Popularity
- #8,102
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 103
- ISBNs
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The book was interesting until the point towards the end where Nigel claimed to have identified the murderer but wouldn't reveal who it was. He keeps asking the police for one more day before he tells them what he knows because he doesn't have any proof. And even after a second murder takes place the police keep giving in to his one more day request. And the reason for not confronting the murderer with the proof when he did get it finally seemed rather thin.
But overall a nice read.… (more)