Description: Luke Pilgrim wakes up the morning after taking some serious punches in his title fight the night before and can't remember if he killed a girl he was seen with after the victory party. Pilgrim realizes that to clear himself as a suspect he must piece the events together and find out what occurred that night. But, justice is breathing down his neck and closing in, so he must continue to slug out of his lost memory any vague thought that could prove beneficial to solve the mystery.
Brief description: William Campbell Gault (19101995) was a sports fiction author and Edgar Awardwinning crime fiction author. Some of his notable works includeDont Cry for Meand the Shamus Awardwinning title, The Cana Diversionfrom theBrock Callahan series.