Nicholas Blake Books in Order

At Sudeley Hall school, the headmaster's hated nephew is found strangled on sports day, and suspicion falls on an English master with something to hide. Nigel Strangeways makes his debut in a sharp school set puzzle.

Flying ace Fergus O'Brien receives letters predicting he will die on Boxing Day, then invites every likely suspect to Christmas. When the murder happens on schedule, Nigel Strangeways faces a country house puzzle and a room full of secrets.

Invited to speak in a Dorset town, Nigel Strangeways steps into brewery politics, a dead dog, and a deeply disliked local magnate. When a body turns up in a vat, the case becomes darker and far stranger.

After his young son is killed in a hit and run, writer Frank Cairnes plots revenge and sets down his plans in a diary. When his target dies by another hand, Nigel Strangeways must solve a brilliantly tangled murder.

Nigel and his explorer wife Georgia uncover a conspiracy aimed at toppling the British government. Part detective story, part prewar political thriller, it gives Georgia a larger role and raises the stakes far beyond one murder.

At a flashy new holiday camp called Wonderland, a series of cruel practical jokes begins to feel like sabotage. Nigel Strangeways must identify the so called Mad Hatter before the pranks turn fully murderous.

Nigel and Georgia Strangeways spend Christmas at an Essex manor where odd behavior, family strain, and a troubling death spoil the holiday. When the snow reveals a vital clue, the case turns from eerie to deadly.

Just after the Second World War, Nigel Strangeways is working in a London ministry when a secretary is poisoned in front of several colleagues. The tight circle of witnesses makes this an especially neat and unnerving puzzle.

A headless corpse appears in the Thames near the home of famous poet Robert Seaton. Nigel Strangeways, who admires Seaton, must sort through family tension, literary vanity, and a case tied to the poet's work.

Poison pen letters are tearing through the Dorset village of Prior's Umborne, and one victim has already died. Called in to trace the writer, Nigel Strangeways soon faces another death and a village steeped in grudges.

A boy in Kensington Gardens receives a crumpled message from a dying stranger and suddenly finds himself in danger. Nigel Strangeways must protect the child and untangle a plot with international consequences.

Daisy Bland falls for the charming Hugo Chesterman and learns too late that he is a burglar. When he is accused of murder, Daisy's own evidence may help send the man she loves to the gallows.

A respected publishing house asks Nigel Strangeways to investigate sabotage in a controversial memoir. Then one of its star authors is murdered in the office, linking literary scandal to a much darker past.

Two strangers discover they each want someone dead and strike a chilling bargain, swapping murders to create perfect alibis. Blake turns a simple setup into a tense study of guilt, fear, and bad choices.

Nigel Strangeways heads for the Greek islands with sculptor Clare Massinger, expecting a holiday at sea. Instead he finds a ship packed with frayed tempers, hidden pasts, and a murder that leaves everyone under suspicion.

After Dr Piers Loudon disappears and his mutilated body is pulled from the Thames, Nigel Strangeways is asked to protect the family's interests. Missing diaries, clashing stories, and bitter motives make this a cold, knotty mystery.

John Waterson and his younger wife settle in the English countryside, hoping for peace. Instead they find a village full of tension, and a death at the flower show turns local unease into murder.

Asked to protect a professor whose discovery has drawn Soviet attention, Nigel Strangeways enters a wintery Dorset world of spies, pressure, and divided loyalties. This late novel leans into Cold War suspense as much as classic detection.

Flying ace Fergus O'Brien receives letters predicting he will die on Boxing Day, then invites every likely suspect to Christmas. When the murder happens on schedule, Nigel Strangeways faces a country house puzzle and a room full of secrets.

While researching at a university near Boston, Nigel Strangeways is pulled into a murder case when a classics professor turns up dead in a locker. Campus politics and old grudges make the puzzle even trickier.

In a small town in the west of Ireland, Harriet Leeson is found dead in a river. Her husband and her lover both start hunting for the killer, turning grief, jealousy, and suspicion into a tense chase.

A boy in Kensington Gardens receives a crumpled message from a dying stranger and suddenly finds himself in danger. Nigel Strangeways must protect the child and untangle a plot with international consequences.