There's Trouble Brewing

There's Trouble Brewing
First edition (UK)
AuthorCecil Day-Lewis
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNigel Strangeways
GenreDetective
PublisherCollins Crime Club (UK)
Harper & Brothers (US)
Publication date
1937
Media typePrint
Preceded byThou Shell of Death 
Followed byThe Beast Must Die 

There's Trouble Brewing is a 1937 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.[1] It is the third in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways.[2]

Synopsis[edit]

Strangeways is invited to the small town of Maiden Astbury to give a talk to the literary society on a book he has recently written on historic poetry. There he encounters the domineering and tyrannical owner of the local brewery Eustace Bunnett, who hires him to investigate the death of his pet dog Truffles in one of the brewery's copper vats. The very next day a body appearing to be Bunnett's turns up at the same spot.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Stanford p.259
  2. ^ Reilly p.135

Bibliography[edit]

  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
  • Stanford, Peter. C Day-Lewis: A Life. A&C Black, 2007.