The Private Wound is a 1968 mystery thriller novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.Reilly p.352 It was one of four stand-alone novels he wrote alongside the Nigel Strangeways detective novels.Bargainnier p.149 The title is taken from a line in William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona.Stanford p.307 It was a runner-up for the Gold Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers' Association.
Synopsis Near the small Irish town of Charlottesville, the body of the free-spirited Harriet Leeson is found in a river. Her husband and lover both set out to seek the murderer.
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.