by Nicholas Blake · Pan Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330373210
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«The Beast Must Die» is the crime novel by Nicholas Blake, published by Pan Books in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Frank Cairnes, a writer of crime novels, decides to hunt down the hit-and-run driver who killed his young son Martin. His determination to plot a real crime blurs the line between fiction and reality, in a case set in the English countryside.
Fourth novel in the Nigel Strangeways series, written by Nicholas Blake and originally published in 1938. This 1999 edition includes an introduction by P. D. James.
For readers of classic mystery and mid-20th-century British crime fiction.
Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways, starting with A Question of Proof (1935).
