- Alumni and alumnae, Fiction in English, Translations into Russian, English Detective and mystery stories
Frank Cairnes, a popular detective writer who now embarks on a real-life crime of his own, determined to hunt down the runaway motorist who killed his small son Martin.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Cecil Day-Lewis
- First published
- 1938
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Agora Books, Collins, Chivers Press
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- Russian, German, English
- ISBN
- 9783442048892
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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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