The Whisper in the Gloom

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The Whisper in the Gloom
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First edition
Author Cecil Day-Lewis
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Series Nigel Strangeways
GenreDetective
Publisher Collins Crime Club
Publication date
1954
Media typePrint
Preceded by The Dreadful Hollow  
Followed by End of Chapter  

The Whisper in the Gloom is a 1954 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. [1] It is the eleventh in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. [2] The novel introduced the recurring character of Clare Massinger, a young sculptress, who becomes a romantic interest of Strangeways. [3]

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It was adapted into a 1980 American television film The Kids Who Knew Too Much produced by Disney. It relocated the setting of the action from London to Los Angeles and dropped the character of Strangeways from the plot.

Synopsis

With an important Soviet delegation heading to London, a boy in Kensington Gardens accidentally stumbles across a plot to wreck Anglo-Russian relations.

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References

  1. Stanford p.259
  2. Reilly p.135
  3. Bargainnier p.164

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