A Tangled Web (Blake novel)

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A Tangled Web is a 1956 British crime novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake.[1] 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.[2]

A Tangled Web
First edition (UK)
AuthorCecil Day-Lewis
Cover artist'Farnhill'
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins Crime Club
Publication date
1956
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Synopsis

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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

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  1. ^ Bargainnier p.168
  2. ^ Reilly p.352

Bibliography

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  • 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.