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The annual Sports Day at respected public school Sudeley Hall ends in tragedy when the headmaster's obnoxious nephew is found strangled in a haystack. The boy was despised by staff and students alike but English master Michael Evans, who was seen sharing a kiss with the headmaster's beautiful young wife earlier that day, soon becomes a prime suspect for the murder.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Cecil Day-Lewis
- First published
- 1935
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Harper & brothers, Diogenes Verlag, Curley Pub.
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781446476017
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>Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis was born in County Laois, Ireland, in 1904. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his clergyman father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. Lewis initially worked as a teacher to supplement his income from his poetry writing. Under the pen-name <a href=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2471327A/Nicholas_Blake/>Nicholas Blake</a>, he published his first Nigel Strangeways novel, *A Question of Proof*, in 1935. Lewis went on to write a further nineteen crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways, as well as num
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