A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Staying with a friend in Oxfordshire poet turned amateur detective Nigel Strangeways pays a visit to Robert Seaton a distinguished British poet whom Nigel greatly admires but whose reputation has been on the decline of late. Seaton proves to be an irascible temperamental man and his unconventional household featuring a resentful daughter and mute dwarf servant simmers with tension.
When a headless corpse is found floating in the river by the Seaton's house just a few weeks later the poet becomes the prime suspect. But whose body is it?
A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.
