The Private Wound
The Private Wound is a 1968 mystery thriller novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. It was one of four stand-alone novels he wrote alongside the Nigel Strangeways detective novels. The title is taken from a line in William Shakespeare's Two [Gentlemen of Verona]. It was a runner-up for the Gold Dagger Award of the British Crime [Writers' Association].