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Cecil Day-Lewis CBE (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake , most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways .
Day-Lewis's father Cecil and maternal grandfather Sir Michael Balcon were both awarded English Heritage blue plaques to mark their respective contributions to literature and cinema in the UK. Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis was born on 29 April 1957 in Kensington , London, the second child of the poet Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) and his second ...
A Question of Proof is a 1935 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. [1] It is the first in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. [2]
Nigel Strangeways is a fictional British private detective created by Cecil Day-Lewis, writing under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. He was one of the prominent detectives of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, appearing in sixteen novels between 1935 and 1966. He also features in a couple of short stories. [1]
Day-Lewis is a surname, and may refer to: Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), English poet; Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957), Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-award nominated English actor; son of Cecil Day-Lewis; Frank Day-Lewis (1872–1938), Church of Ireland priest; father of Cecil Day-Lewis; Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1954), English television ...
Thou Shell of Death is a 1936 detective novel by the British author Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. [1] It is the series in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. It was published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and features a country house mystery.
Cecil Day-Lewis ("day") Campbell, in common with much literary journalism of the period, imagined that the four were a group of like-minded poets although they shared little but left-wing views in the broadest sense of the word. Campbell elsewhere implied that the four were homosexual, but MacNeice and Day-Lewis were entirely heterosexual.
Minute for Murder is a 1947 crime novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.It is the eighth in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways, and the first published following the Second World War.