Alarum and excursion
by Virginia Perdue
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An excellent thriller set in 1943 (written in 1944) - a great example of noir. Nicholas awakens to find he has had surgery on his head. Unfortunately he remembers nothing before the present. He finds himself recovering in an insane asylum and slowly begins to remember bits and pieces of his past. He decides to escape from the asylum and then investigates his own past and that of his son.Tags
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