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During Sudeley Hall’s annual Sports Day, the school’s headmaster’s nephew is discovered strangled in a haystack. Suspicion falls on English master Michael Evans, who had been seen with the headmaster’s wife earlier that day. Nigel Strangeways, nephew of the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, steps in to investigate the case, marking the first appearance of the erudite detective in this mystery collection.
First publish date: 1935
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Cozy Mystery
Authors: Nicholas Blake
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