The Private Wound

The Private Wound is a 1968 mystery thriller novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. It was one of four stand-alone novels he wrote alongside the Nigel Strangeways detective novels. The title is taken from a line in William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona. 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.