A Nail Merchant at Nightfall

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A Nail Merchant at Nightfall

First UK edition
Author	Mika Waltari
Original title	Neljä päivänlaskua
Translator	Alan Beesley
Language	Finnish
Publisher	WSOY Putnam (UK)
Publication date	1949
Publication place	Finland
Published in English	1955
Pages	194

A Nail Merchant at Nightfall (Finnish: Neljä päivänlaskua) is a 1949 novel by the Finnish writer Mika Waltari. It is a fictionalised and humorous account of when Waltari wrote his novel The Egyptian. It was published in English in 1954, translated by Alan Beesley.^[1]