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The Sad Variety

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The Sad Variety
First edition
AuthorCecil Day-Lewis
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNigel Strangeways
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins Crime Club
Publication date
1964
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byThe Worm of Death 
Followed byThe 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.

Synopsis

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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.

References

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  1. ^ Stanford p.284

Bibliography

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