| The Sad Variety | |
| Author: | Cecil Day-Lewis |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nigel Strangeways |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Publisher: | Collins Crime Club |
| Release Date: | 1964 |
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| Preceded By: | The Worm of Death |
| Followed By: | The Morning after Death |
The Sad Variety is a 1964 thriller novel written by the Anglo-Irish writer Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.[1] It is the fifteenth and penultimate entry into the series featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. It marked a move away from the murder mysteries of the earlier novels into the then-fashionable spy novel genre.
Strangeways is called in by the Security Service to protect a professor, whose recent discovery makes him a target for Soviet intelligence, and his daughter. The action takes place in a country hotel in wintery Dorset.