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.

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.

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