The Spy Who Didn't Remember

Written by Edward Hoch

Copyright 1972

Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 04/1972. Also printed in the magazine Ellery Queen's Anthology #36 (Fall/Winter 1978) and in the book Ellery Queen Masters of Mystery (1987).
Melbourne, a British agent, is to meet Saffron, a top Russian agent wanting to defect, in Piccadilly Circus. Before the meeting, Melbourne is hit by a bus and suffers amnesia. His colleagues, Rand and Hastings, try to decipher Melbourne's signal to Saffron using cryptic letters.