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plum tree Island is a fictional novel ab away a convalescing New York legal philosophy homicide detective named bath Corey, who gets involved in a multiple capital punishment investigation while he is supposed to be recovering from sedate wounds. John is originally working as a consultant for the miserable township, where an old friend of his is the Chief of Police, but when he is relieved of this position, he continues the investigation on his own. Eventually the county detective assigned to solve the case, Beth Penrose, invites him to work with her and the team solves the original double murder, and all of the murders committed by the homogeneous man, Frederic Tobin.John Corey is relaxing on his Uncle Harrys deck when Sylvester goowell, Chief of the local police, asks John to accompany him to the murder scene. Tom and Judy Gordon, biologists at the nearby Plum Island biologic animal research center, and recent friends of John, have both been shot in the head on the deck of their home. John meets Detective Beth Penrose of the Suffolk County Sheriffs Office, Foster of the FBI, and a man named Ted Nash who says he is from the Department of Agriculture but turns out to be a CIA agent.The initial investigation focuses on the Gordons stealing a virus from the Plum Island facility and selling it to a foreign government. To this end, the team of Nash, Foster, John, Beth and Max are taken on a lengthy tour of the facility, including the depopulated part of the island that contains a revolutionary war era abandoned fort. tour on the tour, John and the team meet the head of security, Paul Stevens. They excessively learn that the Gordons were involved in researching a vaccine for Ebola, were amateur archeologists, and had drop off reign to bring their gravy holder to and from work ... ... John and Beth take Tobins boat to the ferry dock and Max meets them there. John heads for Manhattan to face the wrath of his NYPD supervisor. At his home, he finds a let ter from the Gordons, written before their murder, verifying everything he has now discovered. John goes to meet with his supervisors and negotiate a way out of the trouble he is in for disobeying orders.The last chapter shows John teaching homicide investigation, as a retired police officer. It is several months after the Plum Island incident, and he misses the police force, but accepts what needed to happen. He is also unattached. John is surprised to se that Beth Penrose has enrolled in his conformation. She catches him up on the latest from Suffolk County, and is gently offering to be in his life again. While he initially resists, he announces to the class that he is taking her for drinks that night.