“One of the pleasantest new personalities in Crime Fiction.” - The Sunday Times
In the turmoil of Europe and the changing balance of alliances, vast efforts are being made by British and American counterespionage agents to discover the source of what they believe to be the biggest security break in history.
The top-secret conversations between the American President in the White House in Washington and the British Prime Minister in his room in Downing Street are being monitored and recorded by a Soviet agent.
Against this background, Mr. Holmes of Downing Street is exploring new scientific methods in espionage and putting his counter-theories into practice.
For many, the attraction of Mr. Holmes and the Fair Armenian will not only be in the taut suspense of the action, but in the characters themselves…Morrison of the Yard, Proudfoot of the Embassy, and above all the memorable portrait of the fair Armenian, the tired but beautiful Roma Goldian.
Goldian is an American agent, without love, without hope, who can only pride herself on being a professional, a woman who knows the quickest way to a man’s carotid sinus but never to his heart …
The taut suspense of the action climaxes in the authentic details of the Special Branch operation which seals off the whole of Mayfair in a dramatic chase to catch a spy.
Mr Holmes and the Fair Armenian is an original espionage thriller which delves into a world of secrets, scandal and spies.
Praise for the Mr Holmes series:
“One of the pleasantest new personalities in Crime Fiction.” Julian Symons in The Sunday Times
“A most engaging sleuth.” — Nottingham Guardian Journal.
“Fast, humorous, knowledgeable.” — Daily Herald
“A most satisfactory thriller.” — Oxford Mail
“Neatly contrived adventure.” — Daily Express
“Tense, frightening and diverting by turns.” — Glasgow Herald
“An exciting thriller.” — Frances Iles in the Guardian
“Mr. Holmes remains an engagingly off-beat ‘trouble-fixer’ from No. 10 Downing Street.” — Daily Herald
“Extremely engaging, shrewdly and humorously written.” —The Sunday Times
“Enjoyably sardonic … I hope we see more of the agreeably smooth Mr. Holmes.” —The Daily Telegraph
“Delightfully lively … gleefully handled.” — Glasgow Herald
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.
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