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No other writer is better luited to tell the story of the Missing Macleans. First, he was their friend. He knew ~ them long before their names were printed across the pages, of the world’s Press. Then, as Paris Correspondent of the News Chronicle, he reported the disappearance of Maclean =. and, last year, of Melinda and the children. - He is a friend of Mrs. Maclean’s mother, Mrs. Dunbar. And, so that a true picture might be given, she provided him with fresh facts, letters and photographs. With this background ° and his own knowledge of the affair, Hoare has written a book as fascinating as it is important. ‘From'that book the News Chronicle has taken the series of articles which begins tomorrow. Today Geoffrey Hoare . tells how and why he wrote it. ‘ HE MISSING M. - WERE MY FRI by Geoffrey Hoare _— Maclean with Deauville, in Au; a Melinda