Nepenthe

Found at Crime Reads : The 1942 movie  Casablanca   begins with a voiceover: With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe  turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas. Lisbon became the great embarkation point. Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) and Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) take that late night plane from Casablanca to Lisbon; Rick (Humphrey Bogart, or more informally, Bogey) and Captain Louis (Claude Rains) do not. In the final scene Louis suggests to Rick that they head for Free-French controlled Brazzaville—maybe they did. However, Michael Walsh’s imagined sequel,  As Time Goes By (1998) has Rick, Louis, and piano player Sam (Dooley Wilson in the movie), follow Victor and Ilsa to Lisbon and then on to London to resist the Nazis. Lisbon was the capital of neutral Portugal in World War Two. And is now a remarkable honeypot of intrigue and murder for crime writers looking for an extraordinary location. Li...