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The Worm of Death
First edition (UK)
Author Cecil Day-Lewis
LanguageEnglish
Series Nigel Strangeways
GenreDetective
Publisher Collins Crime Club
Publication date
1961
Publication place United Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded by The Widow's Cruise 
Followed by The Sad Variety 

The Worm of Death is a 1961 detective novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. [1] It is the fourteenth in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. [2]

Synopsis

When Doctor Piers Loudron disappears from his Greenwich home and turn up soon afterwards in the River Thames, his family call in the services of Strangeways to protect their interests during the police investigation.

References

  1. ^ Stanford p.259
  2. ^ Reilly p.135

Bibliography

  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
  • Stanford, Peter. C Day-Lewis: A Life. A&C Black, 2007.