| The Dreadful Hollow | |
| Author: | Cecil Day-Lewis |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nigel Strangeways |
| Genre: | Detective |
| Publisher: | Collins Crime Club |
| Release Date: | 1953 |
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| Preceded By: | Head of a Traveller |
| Followed By: | The Whisper in the Gloom |
The Dreadful Hollow is a 1953 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.[1] It is the tenth in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways.[2]
After a series of poison pen letters in the Dorset village of Prior’s Umborne has led to a man taking his own life, Strangeways is called in by a wealthy local man to try and discover who is sending them. Before long, however, he has to deal with a second victim.