There's trouble brewing

Cecil Day-Lewis First published 1937

About this book

Nigel Strangeways is staying as a guest in the village of Maiden Astbury to address their local literary society. Just before he arrived, the dog of a much disliked brewery owner had been found drowned in a brewery vat. Shortly after Nigel's arrival a human body is found in one of the vats, having been boiled down to the bone - so begins his investigation.

Subjects

  • alumni and alumnae
  • fiction
  • fiction, crime
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • intellectuals
  • nigel strangeways (fictitious character)
  • university of oxford