The Sad Variety

The Sad Variety
First edition
AuthorCecil Day-Lewis
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNigel Strangeways
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins Crime Club
Publication date
1964
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byThe Worm of Death 
Followed byThe Morning after Death 

The Sad Variety is a 1964 thriller novel written by the Anglo-Irish writer Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.[1] It is the fifteenth and penultimate entry into the series featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. It marked a move away from the murder mysteries of the earlier novels into the then-fashionable spy novel genre.

  1. ^ Stanford p.284