The Deadly Joker

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The Deadly Joker
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Author Cecil Day-Lewis
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreMystery
Publisher Collins
Publication date
1963
Media typePrint

The Deadly Joker is a 1963 mystery novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Cecil Day-Lewis, under his pen name of Nicholas Blake. [1] [2] It was one of four stand-alone novels he wrote under the name alongside the Nigel Strangeways detective novels. It is unusual for the author for being written in a first person narrative from the prospective of the protagonist John Waterson. [3]

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Synopsis

A man and his younger wife settle in the English countryside, but find the village is teeming with tensions. Things come to a head when one of the inhabitants is killed during a flower show.

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References

  1. Reilly p.352
  2. Stanford p.288
  3. Bargainnier p.149

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