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THE WORM OF DEATH
By Nicholas Blake, Pseudonym of C. Day Lewis
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1961). First American edition, first printing. "First edition, G-L" statement to the copyright page. Amateur detective, Nigel Strangeways is called in to investigate the disappearance of a doctor who is later found in the Thames River. Strangeways and Clare must sort out which family member is guilty of murder. "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 his own name. C. Day Lewis married his second wife, the actress Jill Balcon, in 1951. He had four children, one of whom is the actor Daniel Day Lewis."--Fantastic Fiction. Light rubbing to the lower shelf-edges, lower corner tips minutely bumped, else very good plus in black linen over brown boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, black-and-white patterned end-papers; in a rubbed and slightly dust-soiled very good dust jacket with short tears to the upper and lower spine edges; original printed $3.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION MYSTERY BOOKS THANKS! |