Without A Trace

It is 1949 and a top-secret new piece of equipment weighing three tons has completely vanished while being moved between English military sites. The scientific cold war is warming up and communists spies are suspected. Intelligence man James Hamilton and his two assistants are called in to help the police who can't find a trace of the missing consignment, and more importantly find out how whoever has stolen it knew about it. A fast-paced cosy mystery in the style of Manning Coles, who wrote over 20 novels about their master spy Tommy Hambledon from 1939 to 1961. This book follows on from The Botanist, but can be read independently.