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Hare sitting up

Hare sitting up

by J. I. M. Stewart

1959Fiction, mystery & detective, traditionalAppleby, john, sir (fictitious character), fictionEngland, fictionLondon (england), fictionFiction
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> In this vintage novel, first published in 1959, Michael Innes provided a new excitement for Sir John Appleby. A top level bacteriological scientist has disappeared and, it is thought, may be carrying round with him a culture of almost inconceivable virulence. Kidnapped? Quitted to the enemy? A nervous breakdown? Or, a more fearful possibility, is he quietly mad and planning the destruction of the whole of verminous humanity? These are the possibilities that face Appleby when he gets his instructions from the Prime Minister at the start of *Hare Sitting Up*.

Themes & subjects

Fiction, mystery & detective, traditionalAppleby, john, sir (fictitious character), fictionEngland, fictionLondon (england), fictionFictionPolice
First published 1959

Setting

EnglandGreat Britain

About the author

J. I. M. Stewart
J. I. M. Stewart

30 September 1906 – 12 November 1994

"John Innes Mackintosh Stewart 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 the pseudonym of Michael Innes. Many devotees of the Innes books were unaware of his other 'identity', and vice-versa." - Wikipedia

Author

J. I. M. Stewart

First published

1959

Pages

192

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

23

Language

English

Publisher

Gollancz

ISBN

9780755120987

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