There's Trouble Brewing

There's Trouble Brewing is a 1937 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.^[1] It is the third in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways.^[2]

There's Trouble Brewing

First edition (UK)
Author	Cecil Day-Lewis
Language	English
Series	Nigel Strangeways
Genre	Detective
Publisher	Collins Crime Club (UK) Harper & Brothers (US)
Publication date	1937
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Preceded by	Thou Shell of Death
Followed by	The Beast Must Die

Synopsis

Strangeways is invited to the small town of Maiden Astbury to give a talk to the literary society on a book he has recently written on historic poetry. There he encounters the domineering and tyrannical owner of the local brewery Eustace Bunnett, who hires him to investigate the death of his pet dog Truffles in one of the brewery's copper vats. The very next day a body appearing to be Bunnett's turns up at the same spot.