 First edition Collins Crime Club cover. | |
| Author | Cecil Day-Lewis |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Nigel Strangeways |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Collins Crime Club (UK) Harper & Brothers (US) |
Publication date | 1941 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Malice in Wonderland |
| Followed by | Minute for Murder |
The Case of the Abominable Snowman is a 1941 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.[1] It is the seventh in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways.[2] Day-Lewis, best known as a poet, also wrote a number of mysteries during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Although in some respects a traditional 1930s country house mystery, it makes passing references to Second World War features such as the blackouts. Although published in 1941, it was written and set in 1940 during the Phoney War era.[3] It was published in the United States under the alternative title The Corpse in the Snowman.