| A Tangled Web | |
| Author: | Cecil Day-Lewis |
| Cover Artist: | 'Farnhill' |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Publisher: | Collins Crime Club |
| Release Date: | 1956 |
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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]
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.