A Tangled Web is a 1956 British crime novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.Bargainnier p.168 It was one of four stand-alone novels he wrote under the name alongside the Nigel Strangeways detective novels. It was published by Harper in the United States under the alternative title Death and Daisy Bland.Reilly p.352
Synopsis Daisy Bland, a country girl working in a London dress shop, encounters the charming Hugo Chesterman and they begin a relationship. She discovers that he is a cat burglar. However, when he is accused of a murder he didn't commit, her evidence unwittingly threatens to send him to the gallows.
References
Bibliography Bargainnier, Earl F. Twelve Englishmen of Mystery. Popular Press, 1984. Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015. Stanford, Peter. C Day-Lewis: A Life. A&C Black, 2007.