Hare Sitting Up (1959)
Blurb:
My review:
Disappointing in the extreme. Although the opening chapter attractively imagines a world empty of people, with references to chemical weapons and the WHO as relevant now as then, it soon peters out into mediocrity. The disappearance of a scientist (possibly with a vial of bacteria) leads Appleby on an episodic chase from a prep school to a mad Earl’s estate to an Atlantic island. The quarry turns out not to be hare, but wild goose, half-baked and tasteless.