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22 de jul. de 2022 · Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who 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 ...
But he was by then earning his living mainly from his writings, having had some poetry published in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and then in 1935 beginning his career as a thriller writer under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake with 'A Question of Proof', which featured his amateur sleuth Nigel Strangeways, reputedly modelled on W H Auden.
22 de sept. de 2019 · Book Review: THE WHISPER IN THE GLOOM (1954) by Nicholas Blake. My last reading experience with the 1954 suspense story The Whisper in the Gloom was about 15 years ago. At that time, I was in the process of reading all 16 of Cecil Day-Lewis's Nigel Strangeways mysteries that he wrote under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake.
Nicholas Blake. (Cecil Day Lewis) ( 1904 - 1972) Nicholas Blake is the pseudonym for C. Day Lewis CBE, who was Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972, aged sixty-eight. C. Day Lewis had an illustrious career both as an academic and as a literary figure, producing many collections of poetry, critical works, translations and novels under ...
Nicholas Blake nos tiene acostumbrados a que, mientras leemos sus novelas, pasemos un buen rato. Y Los Toneles de la muerte, también publicada por El Séptimo Círculo, no escapa a esta regla. Escrita en un tono ligero e irónico, incluyendo dosis de humor, nos encontramos con un nuevo caso protagonizado por Nigel Strangeways, el torpe y simpático intelectual devenido en sagaz detective.
Frank Cairnes, a popular detective writer who now ... The Nicholas Blake Treasury, Volume 1. by Nicholas Blake. 3.10 · 10 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1992 · 5 editions. No ISBN Contains the three Nigel Strangeways storie ...
Nigel Strangeways is a fictional British private detective created by Cecil Day-Lewis, writing under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. He was one of the prominent detectives of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, appearing in sixteen novels between 1935 and 1966.He also features in a couple of short stories.
