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This taut and suspenseful mystery explores the terror surrounding the potential rapid spread and effect of viruses. 'Isn't madness,' he asked, 'one of the possibilities we've been talking about?' When top government scientist, Professor Howard Juniper, goes missing it's not simply a missing persons case. At the height of the Cold War, Juniper has been researching and developing biological weapons. Thought to be carrying a biological culture of inconceivable virulence, Juniper must be found... and fast. Inspector John Appleby is called upon to solve this mystery. Enlisting the help of Howard's twin brother, Miles, Appleby hatches a plan for Miles impersonate his brother in order to buy some time. But Appleby has three terrifying leads to follow: has Juniper been kidnapped, has he defected, or has he simply gone mad? In a case where the stakes could not be higher, Appleby races from boarding schools to remote islands in order to find the missing scientist before humanity itself is lost.

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Mr. Innes is in a class by himself among detective story writers. -- Times Literary Supplement Great fun to read, intriguing and engaging. -- Amazon Reviewer I thoroughly enjoyed this offering from Michael. Highly entertaining and definitely highly recommended. -- Amazon Reviewer The plot also involves a whole lot of birds and a lunatic member of the aristocracy. Extremely entertaining! -- Amazon Reviewer This novel is a smoothly blended combination of thriller and manor house mystery. -- Amazon Reviewer

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Michael Innes is the pseudonym of John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (30 September 1906 - 12 November 1994). Innes was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the crime fiction published under his pseudonym. Many devotees of the Innes books were unaware of his other identity , and vice versa. Innes published nearly fifty crime novels and short story collections in his lifetime, but is best known for creating Detective Inspector Sir John Appleby of Scotland Yard, who eventually through the course of the later novels becomes Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. He attended Edinburgh Academy, and later studied English literature at Oriel College, Oxford. Having lectured in English at the University of Leeds from 1930 to 1935, he would then become Jury Professor of English in the University of Adelaide, South Australia. Once he returned to the United Kingdom he lectured at Queens, Belfast from 1946 to 1948. In 1949 he became a Student (Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford. By the time of his retirement in 1973, he was a professor of the university. He died in Coulsdon.

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