DR. GATSKILL'S BLUE SHOES

Peter Hanley is a cop. Right now, he's an inmate in a mental institution. It's either the mental institution or prison. You see, Peter may have killed someone, a woman with flaxen hair and jade green eyes who calls herself Narcissa. Strangled her, in fact. But he can't remember. So Peter is injected with sodium amytal and talks to the doctor, Dr. Gatskill.

He remembers falling in love with Narcissa. He remembers her icy kisses. But he doesn't remember killing her. So he and Dr. Gatskill take it one step at a time. Maybe if he can recall the events that led up to Narcissa's fatal evening, he will be able to figure out what happened to her. But all he can see is the image of her lying across the smoky blue sofa, her face a grimace of fear...