There is an imposter in Downing Street!
When the Chancellor of the Exchequer is injured while on a fishing holiday in Cornwall, he’s rushed straight to Downing Street.
The country’s in the grip of a financial crisis, so the situation needs to be handled with care.
But when the heavy bandages are removed from the injured man’s badly burned face, it’s not the Chancellor lying there, but a stranger.
In steps, Mr. William Holmes, Downing Street security expert.
Is this an elaborate kidnap – a sinister plot to destabilise Britain by doing away with the one man who may be able to save the country from a national calamity?
Who is the stranger at Downing Street?
Why was he alone on the Chancellor’s boat?
Most importantly of all – where is the Chancellor?
Caught up in this intrigue is the young and beautiful Joy Privet, the nurse from the Cornish hospital who had accompanied the patient to Downing Street.
Surely no one thinks she is responsible for the deception?
With impeccable calm, Mr. Holmes takes charge but will he solve the international mystery?
Praise for Conrad Voss Bark
‘Conrad Voss Bark — BBC Parliamentary Correspondent — is a superb story-teller.’ Western Mail
'Accomplished and plausible' - The Sunday Times
Conrad Voss Bark was born in 1913 and died in 2000. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and worked for the BBC as Parliamentary Correspondent. Voss Bark began writing poetry and short stories before the Second World War. He is the author of several novels, many of them featuring his detective, William Holmes, as well as a number of books about fly-fishing.
Genre: Mystery
When the Chancellor of the Exchequer is injured while on a fishing holiday in Cornwall, he’s rushed straight to Downing Street.
The country’s in the grip of a financial crisis, so the situation needs to be handled with care.
But when the heavy bandages are removed from the injured man’s badly burned face, it’s not the Chancellor lying there, but a stranger.
In steps, Mr. William Holmes, Downing Street security expert.
Is this an elaborate kidnap – a sinister plot to destabilise Britain by doing away with the one man who may be able to save the country from a national calamity?
Who is the stranger at Downing Street?
Why was he alone on the Chancellor’s boat?
Most importantly of all – where is the Chancellor?
Caught up in this intrigue is the young and beautiful Joy Privet, the nurse from the Cornish hospital who had accompanied the patient to Downing Street.
Surely no one thinks she is responsible for the deception?
With impeccable calm, Mr. Holmes takes charge but will he solve the international mystery?
Praise for Conrad Voss Bark
‘Conrad Voss Bark — BBC Parliamentary Correspondent — is a superb story-teller.’ Western Mail
'Accomplished and plausible' - The Sunday Times
Conrad Voss Bark was born in 1913 and died in 2000. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and worked for the BBC as Parliamentary Correspondent. Voss Bark began writing poetry and short stories before the Second World War. He is the author of several novels, many of them featuring his detective, William Holmes, as well as a number of books about fly-fishing.
Genre: Mystery
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