THE WORM OF DEATH By Nicholas Blake London: The Crime Club, (1961). First edition. Mild fading to the spine, lower corner tips slightly bumped, small stain to the lower fore-edge pages, else very good in red cloth with spine titles and device embossed in black; in a fine high quality FACSIMILE dust jacket. Amateur detective, Nigel Strangeways is called in to investigate the disappearance of a doctor who is later found in the Thames River. He had been murdered. Strangeways and Clare must sort out which family member is guilty. "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. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS!