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In London, Monty Norman, an amateur hypnotist, with a taste for sex and power games, finds he has chosen the wrong victim. After a woman goes missing, her family are searching for her - and he has no choice but to flee the city. But why should the respected Professor Maitland Ure take this criminal into his Edinburgh. home? What strange power does he exert over him? Why does the Professor's wife Lucy turn to him for comfort? And what does it have to do with the Great Sovek, a hypnotist, showman, and charlatan performing in one of the city's theatres. The answers will be revealed after...The Stranger Came. 'The Stranger Came' is a brilliantly atmospheric and evocative story of magic, sex and power by one of the finest crime writers of his generation. In the 1980s the acclaimed Scottish crime writer Frederic Lindsay came across an account of the notorious Heidelberg case, a classic of criminal hypnosis in the early years of Hitler’s Germany. From it, this disturbing and chilling novel evolved. Frederic Lindsay was one of the most widely praised crime authors of the last two decades. 'Intelligent, entertaining, gripping and well-written.' - Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday. 'Lindsay can chill your soul' - Sarah Dunant, The Listener. 'Lindsay has used a genre often concerned with entertainment only to write a write a profoundly serious novel, as Chandler and Ross Macdonald did in California half a century ago.' - Alan Massie, The Scotsman. 'An intriguing and intelligent thriller' - Sunday Telegraph. Frederic Lindsay was a novelist living in Edinburgh. His books include 'Ripped' and the Inspector Jim Meldrum series. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books. **