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Jul 16, 2012 · First published in 1958, 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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A Penknife in My Heart is a 1958 crime 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 plot is reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith's 1950 novel Strangers on a Train.
Apr 15, 2020 · This is the story of the “contract” made between Hammer and Stowe – the design for two motiveless murders; a story that begins ingeniously and then grows progressively in tension as the full horror and consequences of the “contract” are ever more realistically described.
A Penknife In My Heart is a 1958 novel by Nicholas Blake, which works the always intriguing premise of two strangers in a pact to "dispose of each other's rubbish", as main character Stuart Hammer crudely puts it.
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An illustration of a heart shape "Donate to the archive" ... A penknife in my heart by Blake, Nicholas, 1904-1972. Publication date 1959 Publisher New York, Harper
Jan 1, 1980 · 3.4 16 ratings. See all formats and editions. Kindle. $6.74 Read with our free app. Paperback. $16.21 6 Used from $6.56 5 Collectible from $8.55. 1st Perennial edition paperback, vg+. Print length. 169 pages. Language. English. Publisher. HarperCollins. Publication date. January 1, 1980. ISBN-10. 0060805218. ISBN-13. 978-0060805210. See all details
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