"An English bookseller is drawn into a web of political intrigue and espionage as he delves into the life of a mysterious woman."
"A British scientist who vanished in a cloud of suspicion, his distraught wife anxious both to find her husband and to prove his political allegiance, and a literate bookseller with an obsession about another man's wife are the main characters in this murder mystery."
"It is at a party that Richard Hedon first hears about the mysterious Paul Clyro and his unexplained disappearance. Clyro had been a scientist, doing secret work on viruses with a colleague named Wolsingham. But Wolsingham had committed suicide by swallowing potassium cyanide and Paul Clyro found the body, walked out of his house and vanished without trace. Richard follows Clyro's trail - all the way to Madeira, where a man known as Gavin Chilmark is living a comfortable and contented life, free from any breath of suspicion."
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