Thou Shell of Death

{{Short description|1936 novel}}

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| author = Cecil Day-Lewis

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| series = Nigel Strangeways

| genre = Detective

| publisher = Collins Crime Club
Harper & Brothers (US)

| release_date = 1936

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| media_type = Print

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| preceded_by = A Question of Proof

| followed_by = There's Trouble Brewing

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Thou Shell of Death is a 1936 detective novel by the British author Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.Reilly p.135 It is the series in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. It was published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and features a country house mystery. The title is a quote from the Jacobean play The Revenger's Tragedy.Scaggs p.27