![]() He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. About the author: Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland in 1904. An old friend of Cairns calls in private detective Nigel Strangeways, who must unravel a fiendishly plotted mystery if he is to discover what really happened to George Rattery. ![]() Cairns intends to murder the hit-and-run driver who killed his young son, but when his intended victim is found dead and Cairns becomes the prime suspect, the author insists that he has been framed. ![]() Respected crime writer Frank Cairns plots the perfect murder-a murder that he himself will commit. ![]() One of the Observer 's 1,000 novels everyone must read, The Beast Must Die is a darkly compelling psychological thriller in which a crime writer plans to commit the perfect murder. ![]()
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