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    There's Trouble Brewing

    By Nicholas Blake

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    A quiet English town is turned upside down by a grisly murder . . .
     
    Private detective and poet Nigel Strangeways has been invited to address the Maiden Astbury literary society in the sleepy and serene Dorset town. But all is not as peaceful as it seems. Local brewer Eustace Bunnett is on the warpath after his beloved dog is found dead in one of the Bunnett’s Brewery vats. The grisly crime casts an air of suspicion over the whole town, but no culprit is found.
     
    When a body is discovered in the very same vat, gruesomely boiled down to its bones, Strangeways is called in to catch the killer and solve this very peculiar mystery in a town more perturbing than picturesque . . .
     
    “Blake’s resourceful and well-read amateur investigator Nigel Strangeways is a distinctive sleuth.” —The Times (London)
     
    “The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fiction.” —Elizabeth Bowen
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 12, 2017
    ISBN9781504053556
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    Nicholas Blake

    Nicholas Blake is the pseudonym of poet and author, Cecil Day-Lewis, used primarily for his mystery series. Cecil Day-Lewis CBE (1904 - 22) was a British poet from Ireland and the Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He is the father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis and documentary filmmaker and television chef Tamasin Day-Lewis. Day-Lewis was born in Ballintubbert, County Laois, Ireland. He was the son of the Reverend Frank Cecil Day-Lewis and Kathleen Squires. After Day-Lewis's mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, with the help of an aunt, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. Day-Lewis continued to regard himself as Anglo-Irish for the remainder of his life, though after the declaration of the Republic of Ireland in 1948 he chose British rather than Irish citizenship, on the grounds that 1940 had taught him where his deepest roots lay. He was educated at Sherborne School and at Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927.

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    • 4/5
      Maybe a little less than 3.5 stars but more than 3!This is perhaps my very favorite type of mystery (British mystery of the 1930s) but I found Nigel Strangeways (the main character) a little more annoying than I had in other Blake mysteries. The mystery itself, set in a beer brewery, was fine.
    • 4/5
      As you will deduce from the title,the scene of crime is a brewery. A body,or rather the bones and false teeth,which are all that remains of a body,are found boiled in a vat.Private detective,Nigel Strangeways is on hand to assist to official police,and is soon on the somewhat complicated case.As with all of the books in this most enjoyable series,this is no straightforward job of detection and there are red-herrings aplenty.
    • 3/5
      Strangeways, our detective, just avoids being too precious to be likable in this outing. A classic old-fashioned cozy—amateur detective, completely odious first victim, most gory details off-stage—this presents a nice puzzle for the armchair detective eager to outsmart the hero. In this case, the perpetrator is identifiable by a couple of clues and a sort of feeling in the reader. Still, there’s a nicely suspenseful denouement with danger to all. It’s a bit dated (written in 1937), but that supplies a pleasant and relaxing respite from the trials of today’s world. The characters are fairly well-developed. Recommended for fans of Golden Age mysteries.