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| Author | Cecil Day-Lewis |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Nigel Strangeways |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | 1964 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | The Worm of Death |
| Followed by | The Morning after Death |
The Sad Variety is a 1964 thriller novel written by the Anglo-Irish writer Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. [1] It is the fifteenth and penultimate entry into the series featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. It marked a move away from the murder mysteries of the earlier novels into the then-fashionable spy novel genre.
Strangeways is called in by the Security Service to protect a professor, whose recent discovery makes him a target for Soviet intelligence, and his daughter. The action takes place in a country hotel in wintery Dorset.
- ^ Stanford p.284
- Stanford, Peter. C Day-Lewis: A Life. A&C Black, 2007.
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