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Winner of THE EDGAR AWARD for Best Novel St. Paul, Minnesota, 1939. A grisly discovery is made. On a hillside, the dead body of a beautiful dime-a-dance girl is found. Assigned to the case is Lieutenant Wesley Horner, a man troubled and alone after his wife's recent death. He soon narrows his sights on Herbert White, an eccentric recluse. As Horner discovers, White is also a man with no memory, who must record his life in detailed journal entries and scrapbooks. For every interrogation Horner has, Herbert White has few answers, pushing the murder investigation into unknown territory and illuminating the complex relationship between truth and fiction, past and present, faith and memory.