num_pages: 191
description: 1979 mass market paperback reprint edition Harper NY. 191 pages. Mystery novel involving the protection of a university professor who has secrets the Russians would like to have. Nigel Strangeways mystery. Blake is usually cited as one of the more literate British mystery-suspense writers. In real life he was the noted poet C. Day Lewis.
language: English
title: The Sad Variety
publisher: HarperCollins