Memory Book — Howard Engel

Private detective Benny Cooperman becomes his own client in a most puzzling investigation. Benny awakes in the hospital recovering from a serious blow to the head, with a condition called alexia sine agraphia; in layman's terms, he can write but he cannot read. And his memory has been affected too: although he can quote lines from his high-school production of Twelfth Night, he finds himself brushing his teeth with his shaving cream. Even his girlfriend's name, Anna Abraham, eludes him.

But when Benny realizes that he was found unconscious beside a dead woman, he figures he must have been close to solving a case. With Anna working as a field agent, and two cops reluctantly sharing their discoveries, Benny pieces together the events that led to a murder … and his own injuries.