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A. B. Decker (Author)

The death of journalist Frank Goss has cast a shadow full of troubling question marks over Ellen’s bereavement. Above all, what led him to disappear from her life without any explanation?

When Frank arrives in Basel, Switzerland, to cover a referendum on women’s suffrage in 1971, he is plagued by hallucinations. After admission to a clinic, he vanishes. And Ellen is left only with a mysterious verse that psychiatrist Dr Zellweger says he wrote before discharging himself. But not only do the s of their patient not tally with the Frank she knows. The patient gave his name as Eigenmann. Had he been living a separate life she knew nothing about?

While she searches for Frank with generous support from Zellweger’s wife Marthe, the story of Eigenmann gradually emerges: the drama of a man possessed, exiled in a border town beset by the bullying behaviour of its Nazi neighbours in the late 1930s and drawn by the allure of a beautiful woman. But was this all a figment of Frank’s imagination? Only after his funeral is it brought home to Ellen that she was offered a clue to unlocking this mystery from the outset.

Number of Pages: 494Dimensions: 1.1 x 8 x 5 INPublication Date: March 25, 2021