From the creator of popular radio detective Paul Temple comes this exciting adventure featuring super sleuth Tim Frazer. Frazer's friend and ex-business partner Harry Denston has gone missing. That's not all—he owes money and there are several people desperate to track him down. Frazer's pursuit involves cars and boats and various characters, but he manages to survive while others around him perish. A Russian ship has just been wrecked off the Yorkshire coast and a man from the boat dies in a local hostelry. Frazer must put the pieces together.

The World of Tim Frazer was the longest–running BBC serial of the early Sixties, and one of the most successful. The popularity of these TV programs inspired Francis Durbridge to write several novels featuring the easygoing engineer–turned–spy Tim Frazer. In this one, read by Buffy and Little Britain star Anthony Head, Frazer becomes involved in another difficult and dangerous case. When special agent Leo Salinger is killed by a fast car in Amsterdam, Tim Frazer is sent over to trail the attractive young woman who was at the wheel. Was it a genuine accident? So it seems, until Frazer returns to London and encounters a body instead of an evening date. The case grows more complicated at every turn. What sinister implications lie behind an innocent bulb catalog? What is the mystery of the metronome carried by the dead man? It is only Frazer’s second assignment—is it going to be his last? From the creator of popular radio detective Paul Temple comes this exciting adventure featuring undercover agent Tim Frazer, narrated by Anthony Head.

From the creator of popular radio detective Paul Temple comes this gripping adventure featuring undercover agent Tim Frazer, read by Anthony Head. The World of Tim Frazer was the longest–running BBC serial of the early Sixties, and one of the most successful. The popularity of the TV programs inspired Francis Durbridge to write several novels featuring the easygoing engineer–turned–spy Tim Frazer. In this one, read by Buffy and Little Britain star Anthony Head, Frazer becomes involved in another complex case full of twists and turns. St. Bride's guest house, just outside the town of Melinfforest, was a restful place with glorious views of the Welsh countryside. Tim Frazer, however, had no time for fishing and long country walks. He had been sent there to find out why Miss Thackery, a British intelligence agent, had been brutally murdered and her body dumped in a nearby wood. There was also the matter of a missing German scientist, Kurt Lander, who had been working for the British Government before mysteriously disappearing. Can Tim Frazer find out what links the two agents—before it's too late?