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Minute for Murder
First edition
Author Cecil Day-Lewis
LanguageEnglish
Series Nigel Strangeways
GenreCrime
Publisher Collins Crime Club
Publication date
1947
Publication place United Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded by The Case of the Abominable Snowman 
Followed by Head of a Traveller 

Minute for Murder is a 1947 crime novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. It is the eighth in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways, and the first published following the Second World War. The hero begins the film employed at the Ministry of Morale, modelled on the Ministry of Information that Day-Lewis had worked for during wartime. [1]

References

  1. ^ Stanford p.191

Bibliography

  • Stanford, Peter. C Day-Lewis: A Life. A&C Black, 2007.