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The Madman's Tale

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Jun 2004
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Suspense Suspense
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576

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It's been twenty years since Western State Hospital was closed down. Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum for his erratic behavior. Now middle-aged, he leads an aimless life, perpetually medicated to quiet the chorus of voices in his head. But a reunion on the grounds of the shuttered institution stirs something deep in Francis's troubled mind: dark memories about the unsolved murder of a young nurse whose mutilated corpse was discovered late one night after lights-out. Who was her murderer? Now, like Francis's long-buried recollections, the killer has resurfaced . . . with a vengeance.

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Mar 2005 Ballantine ISBN13 9780345464828 ISBN10 0345464826
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First Edition Jun 2004 Bantam (UK) ISBN13 9780593052051 ISBN10 0593052056
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First Edition Jun 2004 Ballantine ISBN13 9780345464811 ISBN10 0345464818
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Jun 2004 Random House ISBN13 9780345478474 ISBN10 0345478479
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Jun 2004 Ballantine ISBN10 B000FC1QOW
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Sep 2004 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780786268344 ISBN10 0786268344
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