Twenty Years After Dumas comes out on the side of the monarchy in general, or at least the text often praises the "idea" of benevolent royalty. His musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers. The action begins during the regency of Queen Anne of Austria (term 1643–1651), with Cardinal Mazarin as First Minister. D'Artagnan, who seemed to have a promising career ahead of him at the end of "The Three Musketeers", has for twenty years remained a lieutenant, and seems unlikely to progress despite his ambition and the debt
Psycho II (novel) shoot him. As he falls, he is revealed to be Claiborne. After surviving the shooting, Claiborne gets committed to the very asylum that Norman spent twenty years in. His colleague deduces that when Norman died, Claiborne realized his career was finished and the trauma of it gave him Norman's split personality. This personality killed Sam and Lila, Vizzini, and the producer. Now, his colleague is hoping that he will one day be cured, but he is not very hopeful. Psycho II (novel) Psycho II is a 1982 novel by American writer Robert Bloch, a sequel to his 1959 novel "Psycho".