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Enjoyable Exercise in Deduction,
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This review is from: The Widow's Cruise (Paperback)
I quite enjoyed The Widow's Cruise (1959), the eleventh Nigel Strangeways mystery by Nicholas Blake (a pseudonym for Cecil Day-Lewis, poet laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972). Highly reminiscent of an Agatha Christie story, The Widow's Cruise is a delightful exercise in deduction. Several solutions are quite plausible. The actual solution is a surprise, an entirely fair one as all the clues are indeed visible, at least in retrospect.The poet Nigel Strangeways and his friend, the well-respected sculptress Claire Massinger, are relaxing on a Greek cruise ship. As so often is the case, Strangeways becomes entangled in affairs that lead to murder. Seemingly every passenger has some secret, and much of the fun is sorting out which secrets are red herrings and which are indeed relevant to the mystery itself. The Widow's Cruise was reissued in 1977 in a Perennial Library paperback by Harper and Row Publishers. It can also be found in The Nicholas Blake Treasury, Volume 4, a hardcover book club edition published by the Mystery Guild.
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A British Master,
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This review is from: The Widow's Cruise (Paperback)
Nicholas Blake, author in the classic British tradition of erudite, classically educated, writers, who write clear, clean, but not pretentious, prose, here puts his hero, Nigel Srangeways, Scotland Yard detective, and his sculptor girl-friend, Clare, separate cabins, on a cruise ship touring the Greek Islands. On board are the usual set of characters, some congenial, some shady, and some a mite peculiar. Pre-ship board animosities, loves, hates come into play as do emotions generated by the interactions of likes and unlikes in the foreshortened perspective of a ship.Then comes a day in which there is a murder and a disappearance. Strangeways, as the only professional aboard, takes charge with the Captain's blessing until the boat returns to a Greek port where the Greek police will assume authority. The plot lines are tricky, the characters suitably distinctive and the action absorbing. Most readers of detective stories will find this book, written about a half century ago, not in the least bit dated, still in every respect, a product of fine British craftsmanship.
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