Mister Memory

In Paris, at the end of the nineteenth century, a man with a perfect memory murders his wife. But that is only the start of the story... A dazzling literary mystery from prizewinning author Marcus Sedgwick.

In Paris, in the year 1899, Marcel Despr s is arrested for the murder of his wife and transferred to Salp tri re asylum. And so the story might have stopped.

But the doctor there soon realises this is no ordinary patient: Marcel Despr s, Mister Memory, is a man who cannot forget. And the policeman investigating his case feels sure something else is at stake: for why else would his superiors be so keen for the whole affair to be closed?

The crime seems to be linked to the highest and lowest establishments in France, and the policeman and the doctor between them must unravel the mystery... but the answers lie inside Marcel's head.

And how can he tell what is significant when he remembers every detail of every moment of his entire life? For fans of Scarlett Thomas, Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Patrick Suskind, this is a captivating literary mystery about memory, history and fate.