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A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY The government's security department have asked private detective Nigel Strangeways to keep a discreet eye on Professor Alfred Wagley, a research scientist who is spending the Christmas holidays in the South-West of England. But someone else is also very interested in the professor and his work, and when his young daughter is kidnapped, Nigel finds himself in a race to avert a tragedy. A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming show more and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction. show lessTags
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- Original title
- The Sad Variety
- Original publication date
- 1964
- People/Characters
- Nigel Strangeways; Lucy Wragby
- Important places
- England, UK
- Epigraph
- 'And all the sad variety of Hell
Dryden - Dedication
- To all the Stones
- First words
- 'But I can't understand why--'
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)'Let's go now.'
- Original language
- English UK
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- (3.36)
- Languages
- English, German, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 4
