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Nicholas Blake

The Beast Must Die

The Beast Must Die

by Nicholas Blake

Publisher The Crime Club

Genre: Crime

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    This rare first edition is in good overall condition for it's age, showing some signs of shelf wear to both the head and tail of the spine. The dust jacket also exhibits shelf wear to the head and tails of the spine. This copy is not price clipped.

About the book

Respected crime writer Frank Cairns plots the perfect murder - a murder that he himself will commit.

Cairns intends to murder the hit-and-run driver who killed his young son, but when his intended victim is found dead and Cairns becomes the prime suspect, the author insists that he has been framed. An old friend of Cairns calls in private detective Nigel Strangeways, who must unravel a fiendishly plotted mystery if he is to discover what really happened to George Rattery.

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About the Author

Nicholas Blake

Cecil Day-Lewis CBE, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways.

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