The Deadly Joker

First edition (UK)
Author	Cecil Day-Lewis
Language	English
Genre	Mystery
Publisher	Collins Crime Club
Publication date	1963
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

The Deadly Joker is a 1963 mystery novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Cecil Day-Lewis, under his pen name of Nicholas Blake.^[1][2] It was one of four stand-alone novels he wrote under the name alongside the Nigel Strangeways detective novels. It is unusual for the author for being written in a first person narrative from the perspective of the protagonist John Waterson.^[3]

A man and his younger wife settle in the English countryside, but find the village is teeming with tensions. Things come to a head when one of the inhabitants is killed during a flower show.

• Bargainnier, Earl F. Twelve Englishmen of Mystery. Popular Press, 1984.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
• Stanford, Peter. C Day-Lewis: A Life. A&C Black, 2007.

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