HEAD OF A TRAVELLER - Nicholas Blake

" Nigel Strangeways had always admired Robert Seaton as the greatest poet of his age.  It was shocking to think he might be a murderer..

Scandal erupts when a headless corpse is found floating in the Thames close to the house of England's most famous poet.  Whose body is it? And where is the head?"
 

Nicholas Blake, pseudonym of Cecil Day-Lewis, writes a very good murder mystery and in this book his detective goes closes to having a couple of humorous moments.

A very good series, recommended.