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The Deadly Joker
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February 15, 2022
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March 9, 2022
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* The Private Wound by Nicholas Blake (April/May 22)
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Susan
Feb 18, 2022 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Having read all of the Nigel Strangeways books, I am now reading all of Nicholas Blake's (Cecil Day-Lewis's) stand alone mysteries. This was published in 1963 and involves the quiet village of Netherplash in Dorset, where John Waterson is planning on a peaceful retirement with second wife, Jenny. John has two children from his first marriage; his journalist son, Sam, and seventeen year old daughter, Corinna. However, as all crime lovers know, villages may look picturesque but are rarely as tranq ...more
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