Mr Holmes Goes to Ground
(2023)(The second book in the Mr Holmes Mystery series)
A novel by Conrad Voss Bark
Returning home from visiting his friend, Professor Simon Eberhart, in Paris, Mr. Holmes looks forward to the peace and tranquillity of his London flat.
However, as he’s entering his building his keen eye spots a tiny scratch on the external lock.
It’s enough to raise his alert levels and he contacts his comrade from Scotland Yard, Colonel Lamb, to investigate.
His homecoming thrill is shattered with the presence of several fire-bombs found in his flat. Enough to have killed him.
Immediately, suspicion is aroused. Who on earth would want to blow up Mr. Holmes?
What does he know that’s worth killing him for?
And who, having narrowly failed to do so, would then persist in further attempts at his destruction?
It is true that Mr. Holmes is, in rather a special sense, a Downing Street official; a man very close to the Prime Minister.
But would that really be a motive for killing him, especially just after his return from an innocent holiday in France?
Perhaps the whole troublesome business had something to do with the Liberation Day celebrations he had attended with Professor Eberhat, formerly of the Resistance.
If so, there might be a whiff of espionage in the air, but still the big question remains — why pick on Mr. Holmes?
Mr. Holmes won immediate popularity with crime readers in Conrad Voss Bark’s first mystery-thriller, Mr. Holmes At Sea.
His new adventure is still more exciting, written with the same urbane persuasiveness and that distinctly knowing eye for what goes on in Whitehall behind the scenes.
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 was educated at Bristol Grammar School. He began writing poetry and short stories before the Second World War and has several novels published including The Shepherd File , The Second Red Dragon and See The Living Crocodiles . He has travelled widely both as a reporter and a tourist and worked for the BBC as a Parliamentary Correspondent.
Genre: Thriller
However, as he’s entering his building his keen eye spots a tiny scratch on the external lock.
It’s enough to raise his alert levels and he contacts his comrade from Scotland Yard, Colonel Lamb, to investigate.
His homecoming thrill is shattered with the presence of several fire-bombs found in his flat. Enough to have killed him.
Immediately, suspicion is aroused. Who on earth would want to blow up Mr. Holmes?
What does he know that’s worth killing him for?
And who, having narrowly failed to do so, would then persist in further attempts at his destruction?
It is true that Mr. Holmes is, in rather a special sense, a Downing Street official; a man very close to the Prime Minister.
But would that really be a motive for killing him, especially just after his return from an innocent holiday in France?
Perhaps the whole troublesome business had something to do with the Liberation Day celebrations he had attended with Professor Eberhat, formerly of the Resistance.
If so, there might be a whiff of espionage in the air, but still the big question remains — why pick on Mr. Holmes?
Mr. Holmes won immediate popularity with crime readers in Conrad Voss Bark’s first mystery-thriller, Mr. Holmes At Sea.
His new adventure is still more exciting, written with the same urbane persuasiveness and that distinctly knowing eye for what goes on in Whitehall behind the scenes.
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 was educated at Bristol Grammar School. He began writing poetry and short stories before the Second World War and has several novels published including The Shepherd File , The Second Red Dragon and See The Living Crocodiles . He has travelled widely both as a reporter and a tourist and worked for the BBC as a Parliamentary Correspondent.
Genre: Thriller
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