Head of a Traveller

First edition (UK)
Author	Cecil Day-Lewis
Language	English
Series	Nigel Strangeways
Genre	Detective
Publisher	Collins Crime Club
Publication date	1949
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Preceded by	Minute for Murder
Followed by	The Dreadful Hollow

Head of a Traveller is a 1949 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.^[1] It is the ninth in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways.^[2]

Synopsis

When a headless corpse is found entangled in reeds on the River Thames close to the Oxfordshire home of celebrated poet Robert Seaton, Strangeways becomes involved in the case. Due to his admiration for Seaton he does everything he can to protect the family from the police investigation, but suspects the answer to the killing may lie in the great man's poetry.

References

Bibliography

• Bargainnier, Earl F. Twelve Englishmen of Mystery. Popular Press, 1984.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
• Stanford, Peter. C Day-Lewis: A Life. A&C Black, 2007.

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