“Midnight Fugue” (post 1) a novel by Reginald Hill: What is a Dissociative Fugue?

Back Cover: “Gina Wolfe has come to mid-Yorkshire in search of her missing husband…Is he in [a dissociative] fugue (3) or is he in flight [run away]?” (1).

Reginald Hill was a successful English novelist (2).

Agatha Christie had a famous, real-life disappearance in 1926 (4), probably a dissociative fugue.

1. Reginald Hill. Midnight Fugue. (A Dalziel & Pascoe Mystery). New York, Harper, 2009/2021.

2. Wikipedia. Reginald Hill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Hill

3. Wikipedia. Dissociative Fugue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_fugue

4. Wikipedia. “Agatha Christie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christiehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie

Comment: In this blog, search “Flitcraft’s Fugue” for a post on the story of a dissociative fugue in The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.