See the Living Crocodiles
(2023)(The sixth book in the Mr Holmes Mystery series)
A novel by Conrad Voss Bark
Ferris, Britain’s chief scientific adviser on defence, has vanished without a trace from his Whitehall office and a scandal rears its ugly head as the news threatens to spill into the public domain.
Personally appointed by the Prime Minister himself and thus rendering the country’s leader culpable for Ferris’ unreliability, the Government instantly implements a search mission.
Holmes is put on the case and an erotic painting and a torn car-ferry ticket direct his investigation to the sandy Ile de Ré, off the French Atlantic coast.
There he partners with an old colleague, the French Chief Inspector Didier who has travelled from Paris with his own theories as to Ferris’ disappearance.
Wary of a wild goose chase, Holmes dedicates his time to establishing the nature of Ferris’ connection with the island and it is not long before questions are raised and strange happenings are noted.
It’s no longer just case of missing persons but a hot seat in the cold war…
See The Living Crocodiles is a classic espionage crime novel from a master of the genre.
Praise for Conrad Voss Bark:
‘A spy thriller rare enough to deserve a small salute…very fast and zestful’ - The Financial Times
Conrad Voss Bark was born in 1913 to a family of Quakers in the Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire. He started working for the Western Daily Press after the end of the war, and in 1947 became a writer for The Times. He joined the BBC in 1951 and was between 1952 and 1970 the parliamentary correspondent for the BBC television, becoming "the first news reporter to broadcast the news live on television". As a fiction writer, he was best known for his series of Mr. David Holmes detective novels.
Genre: Thriller
Personally appointed by the Prime Minister himself and thus rendering the country’s leader culpable for Ferris’ unreliability, the Government instantly implements a search mission.
Holmes is put on the case and an erotic painting and a torn car-ferry ticket direct his investigation to the sandy Ile de Ré, off the French Atlantic coast.
There he partners with an old colleague, the French Chief Inspector Didier who has travelled from Paris with his own theories as to Ferris’ disappearance.
Wary of a wild goose chase, Holmes dedicates his time to establishing the nature of Ferris’ connection with the island and it is not long before questions are raised and strange happenings are noted.
It’s no longer just case of missing persons but a hot seat in the cold war…
See The Living Crocodiles is a classic espionage crime novel from a master of the genre.
Praise for Conrad Voss Bark:
‘A spy thriller rare enough to deserve a small salute…very fast and zestful’ - The Financial Times
Conrad Voss Bark was born in 1913 to a family of Quakers in the Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire. He started working for the Western Daily Press after the end of the war, and in 1947 became a writer for The Times. He joined the BBC in 1951 and was between 1952 and 1970 the parliamentary correspondent for the BBC television, becoming "the first news reporter to broadcast the news live on television". As a fiction writer, he was best known for his series of Mr. David Holmes detective novels.
Genre: Thriller
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