Hind's Kidnap

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Hind's Kidnap: A Pastoral on Familiar Airs is Joseph McElroy's second novel. Ostensibly it is a mystery concerning a six-year-old unsolved kidnapping, one that the 6'7" protagonist Jack Hind had tried to solve at the time. His marriage falling apart, Hind obsessively follows a treasure hunt of planted clues that lead him around New York and New England, but he finds nothing helpful concerning the kidnap. Culminating in his wife, she delivers a long monologue, and Hind then obsessively tries to reverse the hunt.
As the novel proceeds, Hind is revealed to be obsessive in general, given to focusing on all sorts of trivialities in his life, both past and present.