By Bernard Gilbert
Trafic d’influence, corruption, groupuscule révolutionnaire, conspiration, mainmise cléricale, vieux réflexes conservateurs, l. a. desk est mise... Tous les ingrédients sont habilement réunis, sous l. a. plume vive et acérée de Bernard Gilbert, pour faire de ce roman policier un portrait vivant des tristement célèbres années Duplessis. Tout ce qui grouille, et surtout, «grenouille», s’agite ici pour notre plus grand plaisir de lecteurs !
28 septembre 1954. Soir de première au Théâtre municipal, où los angeles compagnie présente sector, de Marcel Dubé, devant tout le gratin de l. a. ville de Québec. Pendant le deuxième acte, coup de théâtre, le comédien-vedette de l. a. troupe, Edmond Granteuil, meurt sur scène. Quelques instants plus tard, Paul Tarbin, le régisseur, succombe à son journey en coulisse. Appelé sur les lieux, l’inspecteur Marmet amorce son enquête. Qui a fait le coup ? Ce n’est pas si basic, comme on s’en doute. On découvre notamment que des membres de los angeles troupe qui sont mêlés aux activités du CRI, le Cercle rebelle intellectuel. Et l’événement coïncide avec l. a. disparition des trésors nationaux de Pologne, qui ont été confiés au gouvernement canadien pendant los angeles Deuxième Guerre mondiale.
Bref, l’enquête se corse; Marmet doit jouer de finesse pour distinguer le vrai du fake.
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On 30 January, the carrier Eagle in the Clyde was put on four hours notice to be ready should the battlecruisers break out into the Atlantic. The Admiralty were also concerned about the security of a large troop convoy that was due to leave the UK for Sierra Leone on 14 February. Escort for the convoy was to be provided by the battleship Malaya, the cruiser Hermione and several destroyers. The battleship Rodney was now ordered north from Gibraltar to give added protection. As each day’s reconnaissance reports were received, it became clear that the time was approaching when the battlefleet would be ready to sail.
11 Group was in the air at 1020hrs. It was flown by two Spitfires of 91 Squadron from Hawkinge airfield. Leading the sortie was Squadron Leader Oxspring with Sergeant Beaumont flying with him in the second Spitfire. By this time the weather was closing in with low cloud and squally showers. Visibility was poor when, some 7 miles off Boulogne, Oxspring noticed two lines of E-boats totalling nine craft moving eastwards along the Channel. Then, 3 miles up ahead of him, through the haze, he spotted a great number of ships.
Perhaps to assuage his conscience, Ramsay put a call through to the head of the Royal Navy, Sir Dudley Pound, requesting permission not to have to commit 825 Squadron to such a forlorn endeavour. ’ Reluctantly, Ramsay gave the order for the Swordfish attack to go ahead, but was still troubled by what he was asking Esmonde to do. He requested the RAF liaison officer, Group Captain Constable-Roberts, to talk to Esmonde about making the attack and to leave the final decision to the young naval pilot himself.
