The Private Wound
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| Author | Cecil Day-Lewis |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | 1968 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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The Private Wound is a 1968 mystery thriller novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.[1] It was one of four stand-alone novels he wrote alongside the Nigel Strangeways detective novels.[2] The title is taken from a line in William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona.[3] It was a runner-up for the Gold Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers' Association.
