After the Stranger Came -

Frederic Lindsay

André Deutsch

1992

248 páginas

8h 16m

ISBN-10: 0233987797

Later they will claim nothing was wrong until after the stranger came...

It begins in London when Monty Norman, amateur hypnotist who confuses sex with a taste for power, finds he has chosen the wrong victim. As her family search for him, he has to get out of the city or die.

But why shouldd the respected Professor Maitland Ure take this petty criminal and right wing street fighter into his home? And what happens when the Professor's wife Lucy turns to Norman for confort?

In an Edinburgh theatre, the Great Sovek is a hypnotist, a showman, perhaps something of a charlatan. How can it be possible that one evening a dead woman will leave her seat beside Lucy Ure and go to join him on the stage.

At the mercy of separate selves and hidden lives, the Professor's wife will find answers only in a journey among the mad.

It is more than a decade since Frederic Lindsay came across an account of the notorious Heidelberg case, a classic of criminal hypnosis in the first years of Hitler's Germany. From it he has evolved the events and implications of this disturbing and brilliant novel.