The Morning after DeathThe Morning after Death is a 1966 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. It is the sixteenth and last entry in the series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways.SynopsisStrangeways is in America visiting the Ivy League Cabot University near Boston to do some research. When the body of a classics professor is found stuffed into a locker, he is reluctantly drawn into the murder investigation.