Hardcover. 8vo. The Crime Club by Collins, London, UK. 1958. 192 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Ex-private library bookplate present to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The first edition of this exciting crime novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under his pseudonym Nicholas Blake. A Penknife in My Heart tells the story of how two men - total strangers - establish the perfect alibis by arranging to switch victims. Ned Stowe will kill Stuart Hammer's wealthy uncle for which service Hammer is to eliminate Stowe's neurotic wife, Helena.
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