A Nail Merchant at Nightfall
First UK edition | |
| Author | Mika Waltari |
|---|---|
| Original title | Neljä päivänlaskua |
| Translator | Alan Beesley |
| Language | Finnish |
| Publisher | WSOY Putnam (UK) |
Publication date | 1949 |
| Publication place | Finland |
Published in English | 1955 |
| Pages | 194 |
A Nail Merchant at Nightfall (Finnish: Neljä päivänlaskua) is a 1949 novel by the Finnish writer Mika Waltari. It is a fictionalised and humorous account of when Waltari wrote his novel The Egyptian. It was published in English in 1954, translated by Alan Beesley.