He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and died in 1972 at the home of his friend, the writer Kingsley Amis. READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYPrivate detective Nigel Strangeways books tickets for a holiday in the Greek islands, but the trip. Blake went on to write a further nineteen crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways, as well as numerous poetry collections and translations.ĭuring the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in Minute for Murder, and after the war he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director. Blake initially worked as a teacher to supplement his income from his poetry writing and he published his first Nigel Strangeways novel, A Question of Proof, in 1935. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. A golden age mystery taking place during a cruise around Greece and peopled with lots of quirky passengers, with a murder and suicide that the great Strangeway. Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland in 1904.
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