Author | Cecil Day-Lewis |
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Language | English |
Series | Nigel Strangeways |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | 1953 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Preceded by | Head of a Traveller |
Followed by | The Whisper in the Gloom |
The Dreadful Hollow is a 1953 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. [1] It is the tenth in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. [2]
After a series of poison pen letters in the Dorset village of Prior’s Umborne has led to a man taking his own life, Strangeways is called in by a wealthy local man to try and discover who is sending them. Before long, however, he has to deal with a second victim.