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Head of a Traveller by Nicholas Blake

annarella's review

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4.0

I find this book bewildering and entertaining at same time with a bit of gothic in between.
I really appreciated the story, the characters and the plot twist. This a story of the Golden Age and it has pros and cons of the era.
Recommended.

melissadeemcdaniel's review

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3.0

Nicholas Blake’s amateur detective, Nigel Strangeways, is a smart, intuitive, Golden Age snoop! In “Head of a Traveller”, Blake introduces us to an almost museum-like collection of characters, including a Poet, a Precocious Child, an Artist, and a Dwarf.

Except for an uncomfortable moment when Strangeways decides to practice psychoanalysis, I enjoyed the plot twists and turns, and the progressive unlayering of history and motive.
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