Man Who Was Not Himself — John Creasey

Hugh Buckingham wakes up in a strange bed and makes love to a woman he's never seen before. She responds warmly, makes his breakfast, and packs him off to catch the 9:27 to town, where he finds he's employed as a minor civil servant.

Not so surprising -- except that yesterday Hugh Buckingham was a tough, globetrotting millionaire with a flat in Chelsea and a mistress in every capital. Yet no one -- not the woman who is supposed to be his wife, not his children, his boss, or his associates at the office where his double, it seems, worked -- questions his real identity. Why does Hugh Buckingham suddenly find himself in the shoes of Neil Powell? Where is the real Neil Powell?

It would be simple enough for Hugh to step back into the life he knows is really his -- but he's fallen in love with the other man's wife. When two attempts are made on his life in one day, Hugh knows he is involved in much more than a case of mistaken identity.

Who but the legendary Dr. Emmanuel Cellini can unravel the devious plot behind this baffling mystery?