"Persons Unknown"

A weary writer named Herrick awakens in the middle of a sweltering August night, his mind haunted by a fragment of a dream that blurs the line between fiction and reality. A red‑haired girl from his past, Nancy Cornish, is whispered from the shadows, urging him to uncover a hidden truth that seems to pulse through the fog of his imagination. As he struggles to piece together the fleeting images of a beach, a mysterious heroine, and a cryptic phrase, the ordinary sounds of the city—trolley bells and distant voices—take on an ominous rhythm.

The novel quickly spirals into a tangled web of intrigue, where detectives, secret letters, and enigmatic strangers converge on Herrick’s modest apartment. With each clue, the boundaries of his own story begin to shift, prompting him to question whether the “persons unknown” are characters he has created, real conspirators, or something far more unsettling. Listeners are drawn into a suspenseful, dream‑like investigation that teeters between the writer’s inner world and a lurking mystery waiting to be untangled.