A word about 'The Mystery of Conan Blake.'

The phone rings, you pick it up...and there is no one there...only there is. On these occasions I don't get angry, and most importntly I don't press the 'call back' button. Whoever it is who calls, it is imoortant to me that they keep calling, for I know it is not a nuisance call. To me its important. Someone WANTS to speak to me, but for some unknown reason to me, they can't bring themselves to do so. It's not a problem..
Now, there is always a reason for this.just maybe it's an old 'flame,' who wants to hear my lovely scouse accent again... Which isn't really a scouse accent anymore...or they fear that I'll turn up on their doorstep with a buch of roses!...i would never do that. cos friends are valuable to me, and I treasure them.
Maybe it's some old rival...there must be some out there ....somwhere!..perhaps not. I never got into singing like Bizet's Pearl Fishers, which does remind me of college days...maybe that's a clue...college days....'up the M1..she said..when really it was the M6..I hope she finds that as amusing as I do. Woodiwiss East will never be the same.
Which brings me to my latest book which will be on sale next week sometime. In my last blog I mentioned the working title...It will now be called The Mystery of Conan Blake. And it is a mystery. Berlin is the backdrop but Devonshire in England is featured, so to is The Royal Devon & Exeter hospital  (My mate is an orthopod) We are real ale buddies and birdwatchers, although I confess we do spend too much time down at the Devon Locks pub on the canal tow path in Exeter. What a beautiful city Exeter is. If you are ever passing by pop into the Well House Inn in Cathedral Square, goes back centuries and is actually owned by the Cathedral.....so they say!.. ,
In The Mystery of Conan Blake the main character is a dcotor...and I keep mentioning real ale...Sorry, but my main charactyer Conan likes his real ale..and its an intrinsic part of the book...but so too is Berlin and a pub we found called The Inn of the Last Instance...I'm not kidding...and the food..great stuff German food...but heavy...
that brings me to diet. I am overweight....so with this in mind I have rtreived my bike and now am a regular along the tow paths in Exeter..but I digress... 
In my last blog I mentioed my book A Hurricanes Tale, and in the book I mentioned the lady in the Ice Cream shop in Honiton who worked in the shop for 70 + years. I spoke to her son on Tuesday, he confirmed her age, but as I said she has now passed on... 
On the cover of the book you will see The Brandenburgr Tor...and The Cafe Bar 102... This is our hangout in Honiton, Devon. The reason being is you get a real cup of coffee. Other coffee shops are getting there slowly, like Starbucks and Costa  who insist on putting hot water in the coffee and far too much milk. Do that in Italy or Spain or even Berlin and they'd chop your hand off...I still say the English don't know how to make good coffee...too much milk. While in Spain try a Cortado!.Enough!.
I must record here that we (my agent) are pleased with the response to the recent promotion of Logan's Touch. It is selling well and   reached almost Jack Reacher in the sales charts.!
I called in at The RD&E hospital last week, (my eyes were misbehaving)...and now  learn I have to have a cataract operation. I mentioned it to my mate, and he offered to do my cartilage while I was there...I politely refused....one surgeon in my eyes the other scrabbling in my knee cap..I think not.!
But, if you care to look at amazon and my page les lunt on Kindle, you will see The Ghost's of KG40 has a new cover... as usual wireframecgi.co.uk/publishing did a magnificent job, and well done to the artist, Phil.
If there are any mistakes in this blog, ie, grammar or spelling, my excuse this time is cataracts..I'll let you know how I got on!
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