Dave,
This doesn't strike me as a particularly new plot, either. In fact, though it might not usually be a cop, the someone investigating a murder done during period of missing memory seems pretty common. Goodis, for instance, used the amnesia ploy in the one with a graphic artist -- Nightfall, maybe?
Mark
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> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:56:17 +0000
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: question about plot idea
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> I heard a thriller writing talking the other night about how his latest book has the "unique" plot device of having the detective investigating the crime and realizing that he might be the guilty party. This immediately brought Hjortsberg's Fallen Angel to mind, as well as one of my own books, and vaguely reminded me of a Cornell Woolrich book. I'm guessing this is actually a pretty common plot device, with the detective suffering blackouts, amnesia, etc., and am wondering whatever books people here have read that use this.
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