Sam Roden doesn"t know who he is, where he"s come from or where he"s going. His landlady Elizabeth says that everyone is like that; it"s just that most people don"t realise it. Sam has no memory, only a strange and illogical vision of a room that isn"t there and an eccentric friend who insists that Sam is the perfect assistant in his investigation of a murder. The Scream is a detective novel with a difference. The difference being that the person helping to investigate the crime is asking the most unexpected questions; questions that are relevant to anyone who is ever going to die.