Principalement connu pour ses romans policiers, cet auteur mêle avec maestria le suspense à une exploration profonde de la nature humaine. Son style se caractérise par une observation aiguisée et une acuité psychologique, révélant au lecteur les motivations complexes de ses personnages. Les œuvres de cet écrivain offrent une plongée fascinante dans les aspects les plus sombres de la psyché humaine et les subtilités sociales.
Detective Nigel Strangeways, and his explorer wife Georgia have taken a cottage in the countryside. They are slowly beginning to adjust to a more relaxed way of life when Georgia finds a mysterious locket in their garden and unwittingly sets the couple on a collision course with a power-hungry movement aimed at overthrowing the government.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYPrivate detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is staying at Cabot University, an Ivy League university near Boston, while he undertakes some research. When one of the brothers is found murdered, the local police request Nigel's help in catching the killer, but little does Nigel know just how close he is to the murderer.
This book addresses the material details of the Human Rights Act 1998 in the UK and examines the very different new scheme of immigration control mandated by the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. The authors then analyze the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998
Dr Piers Loudron, the new neighbor of Nigel Strangeways and Clare Massinger, suddenly disappears. His family asks Nigel to find out what happened to him, but they are far from cooperative about answering any questions. Then, three days later, the doctor is found dead. First, the question is, Was it suicide or murder? Then it becomes, Who killed him? (Publisher’s description)
When John Waterson and his young wife chose Netherplash Cantorum, Dorset, for their retirement years, they could not have predicted that this idyllic spot had one severe but unforeseeable drawback: among its inhabitants was a practical joker whose fertile mind ran to the most bizarre and grotesque designs. The Village was no place for a quite retirement, or for a gentle recuperation from the nervous breakdown that had afflicted Waterson's wife. In Netherplash, the peace is continually disrupted with extraordinary events tripping over each other which, in the end, lead to a hideous and painful murder. With a cast of characters who are both bizarre and believable, this is an original tour-de-force of crime fiction placing Blake firmly in the genre.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYWenham & Geraldine are a long-established and very well respected publishing firm, so when a printer's proof is sabotaged and libellous passages are mysteriously reinstated, they call in private detective Nigel Strangeways.
The temperature is dropping, the wind is rising: something sinister is on its way to Smugglers' Cottage. Ten guests huddle together in a guest house for their Christmas holidays in the south of England. Among them is Private Investigator Nigel Strangeways, sent by the British security department to keep a close eye on Professor Alfred Wragby - a scientist who has made a recent discovery that could turn the tide of the Cold War. But Wragby isn't the only one Nigel should be watching... When Wragby's eight-year-old daughter is kidnapped and his formula demanded in exchange, Nigel finds himself in a race against the clock to save more than just the young girl's life. And with an accomplice lurking in their number, Nigel must expose the mole before the situation turns deadly. The Sad Variety was first published in 1964.
Wartime Britain: photos are stolen… a secretary is poisoned… a director is stabbed… Who put the poison in blonde femme fatale Nita Prince’s coffee cup? A hero returned from a secret mission visits his onetime colleagues (among them, Nigel Strangeways) at the Ministry of Morale. His former fiancée, the beautiful Nita, is now having an affair with the director, his brother-in-law…
Upon stopping by Plash Meadows to visit revered poet Robert Seaton, Nigel Strangeways is absolutely enamoured: like something out of a fairy tale, a perfect Queen Anne house stands among sprawling lawns as smooth as green glass, and whimsical gardens overflowing with roses. And not so far off, a dark and winding wood…While visiting with the Seatons, Nigel gets more than he bargained for. He learns about the contentious legacy of the family estate, stumbles upon a secret meeting, and at lunch, when table talk turns to murder and motive, Nigel leaves feeling a little uneasy…Two months later, Nigel is summoned back to the Seaton’s in less pleasant circumstances. A headless corpse has been pulled from the river behind the house and no one can identify the victim… let alone the murderer.As oppressive thunderstorms roll through the countryside and the mood in the house takes a turn, Nigel has only one lead, but it’s throwing up more questions than it answers. The corpse bears a striking resemblance to Robert Seaton’s long-missing brother… but he walked into the ocean ten years prior, never to be heard from again.Bewitched by poet and property, will Nigel be able to put his admiration aside and get to the bottom of this case?
Determined to find the motorist who killed his son, crime writer Frank Cairnes decides to commit a crime of his own, but his quest takes an unexpected turn, and amateur sleuth Nigel Strangeways, accompanied by Georgia, sets out to separate fact from fiction.
