| The Deadly Joker | |
| Author: | Cecil Day-Lewis |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Mystery |
| Publisher: | Collins Crime Club |
| Release Date: | 1963 |
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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.