A Tangled Web (Blake novel)

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)
Author	Cecil Day-Lewis
Cover artist	'Farnhill'
Language	English
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	Collins Crime Club
Publication date	1956
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

Synopsis

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.