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One of the Observer's 1,000 books everyone must read, The Beast Must Die is a darkly persuasive psychological thriller in which a crime writer packages to commit the perfect murder. The fourth Nigel Strangeways enigma. Respected crime article writer Frank Cairns plots the perfect murder - a murder that he himself will commit. Cairns intends to murder the hit-and-run drivers who killed his young boy, but when his intended sufferer is found deceased and Cairns becomes the leading suspect, the author insists that he has been framed. An old friend of Cairns calling in private detective Nigel Strangeways, who must unravel a fiendishly plotted enigma if he is to find what really occurred to George Rattery. About the author: Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was simply born in State Laois, Ireland in 1904. After his mom perished in 1906, he was raised in London by his daddy, spending summer holidays with family in Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne Institution and Wadham University, Oxford, that he graduated in 1927. Blake in the beginning did the trick as a professor to supplement his income from his poetry writing and he published his first Nigel Strangeways book, A Question of Proof, in 1935. Blake went on to write 19 more criminal offense novels, basically four of which included Nigel Strangeways, as well as much poetry choices and translations. During the Second World Conflict he did the trick as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in Minute for Murder, and after the war he joined up with the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and perished in 1972 at the house of his friend, the article writer Kingsley Amis.
