{"first_publish_date": "1935", "lc_classifications": ["PR6007 A95 Q4"], "key": "/works/OL1196403W", "title": "A question of proof", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL120803A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_places": ["England"], "subjects": ["Alumni and alumnae", "Fiction", "Intellectuals", "Nigel Strangeways (Fictitious character)", "University of Oxford", "Large type books", "Fiction, general", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Fiction, crime"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The annual Sports Day at respected public school Sudeley Hall ends in tragedy when the headmaster's obnoxious nephew is found strangled in a haystack. The boy was despised by staff and students alike but English master Michael Evans, who was seen sharing a kiss with the headmaster's beautiful young wife earlier that day, soon becomes a prime suspect for the murder. Luckily, his friend Nigel Strangeways, nephew to the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, is on hand to help investigate the case.\r\n\r\n*A Question of Proof* is the first Nigel Strangeways mystery and is the perfect introduction to this charming and erudite detective from the Golden Age of crime writing."}, "covers": [3177094], "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T20:42:19.068748"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-01T01:28:15.092149"}}