The Smiler With The Knife

The Smiler With The Knife

Summary

Detective Nigel Strangeways, and his explorer wife Georgia have taken a cottage in the countryside. They are slowly beginning to adjust to a more relaxed way of life when Georgia finds a mysterious locket in their garden and unwittingly sets the couple on a collision course with a power-hungry movement aimed at overthrowing the government.

It will take all of Nigel's brilliance and Georgia's bravery if they are to infiltrate the order and unmask the conspirators.

Reviews

  • Georgia Cavendish Strangeways is one of the most complex and likeable characters in the crime fiction of the so-called Golden Age
    Sara Paretsky, Guardian

About the author

Nicholas Blake

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