The Vanished Child - Tapa blanda

Into the lives of the Knight family--a wealthy New England clan living in the early years of the twentieth century--comes a mysterious stranger, who is determined to unearth the truth behind the disappearance and presumed death of Richard Knight. Reissue.

mesmerizing."
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
New England, 1887. The millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered and the only witness is his grandchild, Richard, who himself disappears, and is presumed dead. Eighteen years later, Richard is "recognized" in Switzerland in the person of Alexander von Reisden, and William Knight's only son, Gilbert, is convinced that this man is the long lost child. Reisden, himself, has no memory of any childhood, and his own growing obsession with finding the real Richard is leading him closer to a shattering thruth. And to a killer, still at large....
"A most satisfying tale."
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

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