num_pages: 192
description: 'McCloy has always resembled the best writers of the Sayers-Blake-Allingham school' New York TimesMaria Skinner recovers consciousness after a car crash to find herself in a psychiatric clinic. She remembers the crash quite clearly but she is told that she is suffering from delusions - and must not leave hospital.She tries to contact her husband but is informed that he is unavailable. Finally, in a desperate attempt to escape, she reluctantly agrees to accompany a man who insists he is her husband - but whom she knows is an impostor. Moving from one captivity to another, she becomes a pawn in someone else's sinister game ...
language: English
title: The imposter
titlecomplete: The imposter
ratings_count: 9
series: The Murder Room
publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd. | Victor Gollancz Ltd, London