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Thou Shell of Death

Thou Shell of Death is a 1936 detective novel by the British author Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. It is the second in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. It was published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and features a country house mystery. The title is a quote from the Jacobean play The Revenger's Tragedy.

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Thou Shell of Death
Title page for Thou Shell of Death (1936)
AuthorCecil Day-Lewis
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNigel Strangeways
GenreDetective
PublisherCollins Crime Club
Harper & Brothers (US)
Publication date
1936
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byA Question of Proof 
Followed byThere's Trouble Brewing 

Thou Shell of Death is a 1936 detective novel by the British author Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.1 It is the second in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. It was published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and features a country house mystery. The title is a quote from the Jacobean play The Revenger's Tragedy.2

References

References

  1. Reilly p.135
  2. Scaggs p.27
Bibliography

Bibliography

  • Scaggs, John. Crime Fiction. Psychology Press, 2005.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
  • Stanford, Peter. C Day-Lewis: A Life. A&C Black, 2007.