Thou Shell of Death

Thou Shell of Death
AuthorCecil Day-Lewis
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNigel Strangeways
GenreDetective
PublisherCollins Crime Club
Harper & Brothers (US)
Publication date
1936
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byA Question of Proof 
Followed byThere's Trouble Brewing 

Thou Shell of Death is a 1936 detective novel by the British author Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. It is the series in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. It was published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and features a country house mystery. The title is a quote from the Jacobean play The Revenger's Tragedy.