Who killed Prof Jaeger?

Prof Rufus Jaeger, Head of the Quantum Cryptography Group at the University of Wentbridge, has been given a considerable honour: to give a lecture inaugurating the World Year of Physics. But his plans to amaze his audience with the results of a live, revolutionary experiment — Schrödinger’s Mousetrap — never come to fruition. Instead of the cat or the mouse, it is Jaeger himself who meets an untimely end on stage.

The suspects are numerous. Many colleagues and associates present have reason to resent the professor — reasons that are revealed as each chapter progresses. Schrödinger's Mousetrap is a murder mystery in 10 parts. The weekly episodes are published on the news@nature.com web site and are free to view.

Who do you think murdered Jaeger?

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