The Melting Man is a 1968 thriller novel by the British Victor Canning.Reilly p.254 It is the fourth and final entry in a series novels about Rex Carver, a private detective drawn back into his old profession of espionage.Murphy p.79Burton p.81 It features the French secret agent Aristide de la Dole, who had previously appeared in Doubled in Diamonds.
Synopsis Carver is hired by the millionaire Cavan O’Dowda to recover his missing Mercedes which has disappeared somewhere between Evian and Cannes with crucial documents inside.
References
Bibliography Burton, Alan. Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Murphy, Bruce F. The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery. Springer, 1999. Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.