Traitor's Purse

First published in 1941, this Albert Campion novel opens with the detective waking in a hospital with no memory, a head wound, and the sense that he has a deadline of national importance. He must reconstruct who he is from a woman's loyalty, a provincial town, and fragments of a scheme involving a government purse and a local dynasty. The wartime setting is England under blackout and rumour. Campion's usual lightness is replaced by panic and a race against a date he cannot remember. The book is an amnesia thriller inside a detective series, not a straight puzzle of clues.

7 colour illustrations. Bound light brown cloth, blocked on covers with a colour image. Brown endpapers. Dark grey slipcase.