| The Private Wound | |
| Author: | Cecil Day-Lewis |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Publisher: | Collins Crime Club |
| Release Date: | 1968 |
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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.
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.