The Worm of Death is a 1961 detective novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.Stanford p.259 It is the fourteenth in a series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways.Reilly p.135
Synopsis When Doctor Piers Loudron disappears from his Greenwich home and turns up soon afterwards dead in the River Thames, his family calls in the services of Strangeways to protect their interests during the police investigation.
References
Bibliography Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015. Stanford, Peter. C Day-Lewis: A Life. A&C Black, 2007.