A darkly comic thriller Alexandre Singhs The Appointment is a tale of doubling and mistaken identity that embraces the fantastical and supernatural qualities of Gothic literature from E T A Hoffmann to Roald Dahl The protagonist is Henry Salt an enfant terrible of letters who we meet as he wakes from a nightmare and discovers a confounding entry in his diary 12 oclock at the restaurant La Folie But who is Henry meeting And why doesnt he remember making this appointment When no one appears at the scheduled time Henry becomes obsessed with trying to uncover this persons identity Charging through a series of dreamlike encounters he discovers that the truth is more disturbing than he could have imagined