Talented but professionally dead-ended Ben Candidi is almost grateful when Chief Medical Examiner Westley fires him "for his own good." Dr. Westley persuades Ben to enter the pharmacology Ph.D. program at nearby Bryan Medical School - and to conduct an undercover investigation of the sudden death of the School's Pharmacology chairman. Dr. Westley believes it was murder-by-professor, using a poison that left no trace. But with a half-dozen suspect profs, and with hundreds of their toxins and laboratory drugs to choose from, Ben finds the assignment next to impossible - until he meets a medical student named Rebecca Levis.
"An excellent whodunit ... a first class mystery that combines elements of Michael Crichton, Patricia Cornwell, and even Edna Buchanan." ~ Booklist Mystery Showcase, American Library Assn.