Nicholas Blake
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| Title | : | The Beast Must Die (Nigel Strangeways #4) |
| Author | : | Nicholas Blake |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Pan Classic Crime |
| Pages | : | Pages: 260 pages |
| Published | : | April 9th 1999 by Pan Classic Crime (first published 1938) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Detective |
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The book starts off with the diary of Frank, who addressing the reader tells us that he is going to kill the man who ran over his son. The diary stops at the point where Frank is supposed to kill the person responsible but he fails and the yet the other person turns up dead anyways and Nigel Strangeways is invited over to investigate. The book is well written and intriguing, I haven't really read anything similar but I had a hard time getting into it. I think the writing felt a little dry and the way Nigel solves the mystery seems dubious to me. I usually don't really like mysteries very much anyway but I think someone who's a fan of them would enjoy this one much more than I did.Define Books In Favor Of The Beast Must Die (Nigel Strangeways #4)
| Original Title: | The Beast Must Die |
| ISBN: | 0330373218 (ISBN13: 9780330373210) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Nigel Strangeways #4 |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 1151 Users | 101 ReviewsJudge Regarding Books The Beast Must Die (Nigel Strangeways #4)
This is the Nicholas Blake novel that gets all the press--it's quite a good detective novel, with a very tricky criminal and a couple of real surprises. I liked it very much for that, but I think it misses just a little bit of real emotion in the end (it was there in the beginning). Still, the best mystery-based Blake book I've read so far.The book starts off with the diary of Frank, who addressing the reader tells us that he is going to kill the man who ran over his son. The diary stops at the point where Frank is supposed to kill the person responsible but he fails and the yet the other person turns up dead anyways and Nigel Strangeways is invited over to investigate. The book is well written and intriguing, I haven't really read anything similar but I had a hard time getting into it. I think the writing felt a little dry and
Frank Cairnes is a successful crime writer, under the pseudonym Felix Lane, who has decided he is going to kill a man. This killing will be revenge for the tragic death of his young son. Cairnes plans the murder and tracks down his victim, but when the man is found dead, Cairnes claims he was not involved, and calls in amateur detective Nigel Strangeways to clear his name.This classic crime novel has won many accolades, and it is indeed carefully crafted. There are elements of criminal
A great read. I want to read more of this series.
A writer whose son is hit and killed by a motorist plans to murder his son's murderer. Reason, logic, and coincidence drag him with seeming inevitability toward the truth...I liked this, but I've been reading enough mystery novels that I got to the end of the writer's diary and went, "Aha." The twist was excellent - but there was only one major one, and if you have it, you have it. The individual elements of the story were all pretty good, though, so I don't regret finishing it.
I read an out-of-print edition of this book and was amazed at how good it was. It's a genre mystery set (and written) in 1938 England. Part of the Nigel Strangeways mystery series, this was written by Cecil Day-Lewis under the pen name Nicholas Blake. Day-Lewis was a poet laureate of England and the father of Daniel Day-Lewis. The Beast Must Die (which, as a title, makes sense when you get to the end--it's from a bible passage--but otherwise makes you think the book is something else) concerns a
Synopsis: a popular detective writer gets into a real-life case of his own; he's determined to find the runaway motorist who killed his son.
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