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The Whisper in the Gloom (The Nigel Strangeways Mysteries) Tapa blanda – 19 Enero 2018

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Strangeways must track down a young boy who may hold a clue to an international conspiracy.

You can’t keep Strangeways out of mischief...

On a fine August day in Kensington Garden, Bert Hale is anxious to test out his toy boat, a police informant is running for his life, and Nigel Strangeways is out for a stroll.

By the Round Pond, blood seeps into the water, a young boy flees with a note, and a private investigator is left bewildered.

Meanwhile, Scotland Yard is on high alert. A Soviet delegation is on its way to London and officers are working round the clock to prevent a high-profile assassination. But their staff is running thin as an untimely crime wave washes over London.

As the police attempt to place the incident in the park amidst the rash of crimes, it soon becomes clear that Bert holds the only clue to solving an international conspiracy.

Can Strangeways track down Bert before it’s too late?

The Whisper in the Gloom was first published in 1954.

Praise for Nicholas Blake and The Whisper in the Gloom

“A beautifully written short thriller” — Reader Review

“He is in the front rank of contemporary detective novelists.” — Spectator

“Like Dorothy Sayers, he peoples his stage with people who would hold the attention, murder or no murder.” — The Times

“A really first-class writer.” — Manchester Guardian

“Nothing that Nicholas Blake writes is without distinction.” — Christopher Pym

“What a master of the thriller he is.” — Yorkshire Evening Post

“His plots are ingenious.” — Times Literary Supplement

“A master of detective fiction.” — Daily Telegraph

“The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fiction.” — Elizabeth Bowen

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  1. Número de páginas
    304 páginas
  2. Idioma
    Inglés
  3. Fecha de publicación
    19 Enero 2018
  4. Dimensiones
    5.5 x 0.76 x 8.5 pulgadas
  5. ISBN-10
    1912194287
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1912194285
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  • Editorial ‏ : ‎ Ipso Books (19 Enero 2018)
  • Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
  • Tapa blanda ‏ : ‎ 304 páginas
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1912194287
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1912194285
  • Dimensiones ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.76 x 8.5 pulgadas
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Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland, in 1904 and raised in London after his mother’s death in 1906. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. 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. 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.

During 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. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and died in 1972 at the home of his friend, the writer Kingsley Amis.

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4.0 de 5 estrellas A Poet's Thriller
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 27 de julio de 2012
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A beautifully written short thriller, lovable as much for its prose as for the characterization. The plot is less complicated than other thrillers from Nicholas Blake, but it opens almost stunningly and moves on briskly. It's a gentle, refined thriller of a bygone age when the detective, or even the police worked against odds that are unimaginable today.It's humour and literary allusions are an added bonus.
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4.0 de 5 estrellas Whisper in the Gloom
Calificado en el Reino Unido el 20 de octubre de 2023
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Nerve stretching plot but hated the American spelling and the vast number of mistakes. The author deserves a better presentation.
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sigrunT
5.0 de 5 estrellas Okay, natürlich ist dies ein Krimi !
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Nicholas Blake ist einer der bedeutendsten Krimiautoren des Goldenen Zeitalters gewesen und ich habe viele von seinen Büchern gelesen. Trotzdem war ich auf dieses Buch überhaupt nicht vorbereitet, denn -obwohl es ohne Frage ein Krimi ist- liest es sich so leicht und locker wie ein Abenteuerbuch für Jugendliche. Wer Jugendbücher mag, wird mit diesem Buch viel Freude haben, aber ich denke, dass gilt auch für normale Krimiliebhaber.
Hier wird ein Junge zufällig in ein Verbrechen hineingezogen und macht sich mit seinen Freunden an die Aufklärung, paralell mit der Polizei und dem typischen Helden von Blake, Nigel Strangeways.
Ein spannendes und leicht zu lesendes Buch wie eine Mischung aus Agatha Christie und Enid Blyton.
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CAREY FITZPATRICK
1.0 de 5 estrellas AN INSULT TO THE IMPECCABLE ENGLISH OF CECIL DAY-LEWIS
Calificado en el Reino Unido el 21 de julio de 2015
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Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of the writer and poet, and Poet Laureate, Cecil Day-Lewis. Although born in Ireland he was educated and lived all his adult life in England. He went to public school and Wadham College Oxford and before becoming a full-time writer he was an English teacher in a school. His written English was, of course, impeccable and of the highest possible standard. The way this book has been prepared for publication is absolutely appalling. It is full of American spellings: meager, theater, jewelry for just three out of many examples. The word "kidnapped", which appears frequently, is spelled "kidnaped" every single time. There are other misprints. Cecil Day-Lewis would be turning in his grave if he were able to read this travesty of his novel. Random House should be ashamed of themselves. I will be consigning my copy to the recycling bin.
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4.0 de 5 estrellas Good old fashioned story
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Enjoyed the plot but the appalling editing was pathetic.....kidnapped spelt incorrectly all the way through, wring names used.......not good. S
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