 First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Cecil Day-Lewis |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication 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 prospective of the protagonist John Waterson.[3]