

With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a moving and surprising tale whose subject is nothing less than the nature of mystery itself.
Hard Case Crime
October 2005
176 pages ISBN: 0843955848 Paperback
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THE WORLD'S BEST-SELLING NOVELIST IS BACK... WITH AN ALL-
NEW INVESTIGATION INTO THE UNKNOWN
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead.
There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work
of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in
forensics turns up any clues, and it's more than a year
before the man is identified. And that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the
more they learn about the man and the baffling
circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was
it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the
darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to
investigate the unexplained.
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