mistaken identity

The Secret of the Tong by Hugh Clevely
Having just returned to New York after 18 months in South America, Martin Kerr is mistaken for another man. After being threatened in a restaurant and stalked by sinister Chinese men, Martin needs to find out why – and fast!

Ring Twice For Laura by Vera Caspary (1899-1987) is the 1942 serialized novel that would become famous as the 1944 Otto Preminger movie ‘Laura.’ Serialized over seven weeks in Collier’s Weekly Magazine, it is the story of a New York City career woman mistakenly thought murdered in her own apartment and the three men most affected: her narcissistic former lover, her philandering fiancee, and the hardboiled detective assigned to investigate her case.