SIDNEY SHELDON
MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT
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Source ISBN: 9780006178699
Ebook Edition © APRIL 2012 ISBN: 9780007381937
Version: 2015-04-27
For Alexandra with love
Sing me no songs of daylight,
For the sun is the enemy of lovers
Sing instead of shadows and darkness,
And memories of midnight
—SAPPHO
Table of Contents
Kowloon—May 1949
“It must look like an accident. Can you arrange that?”
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